Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262192AbTEENaC (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 09:30:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262197AbTEENaC (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 09:30:02 -0400 Received: from phoenix.mvhi.com ([195.224.96.167]:50442 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262192AbTEEN37 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 09:29:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 14:42:29 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Dmitry A. Fedorov" Cc: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. Message-ID: <20030505144229.A23483@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , "Dmitry A. Fedorov" , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from D.A.Fedorov@inp.nsk.su on Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:30:38PM +0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 782 Lines: 21 > I use the following calls: > > sys_mknod > sys_chown > sys_umask > sys_unlink > > for creating/deleting /dev entries dynamically on driver > loading/unloading. It allows me to acquire dynamic major > number without devfs and external utility of any kind. > And there is no risk of intersection with statically assigned major > numbers, as it is for many others third-party sources. You don't want to tell me you do that for real, do you? That alone is a very good idea to unexport the syscall table without exporting those symbols.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/