Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261311AbTEHMqM (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 08:46:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261329AbTEHMqM (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 08:46:12 -0400 Received: from phoenix.mvhi.com ([195.224.96.167]:51460 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261311AbTEHMqL (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 08:46:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 13:58:39 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Terje Eggestad Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Alan Cox , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, D.A.Fedorov@inp.nsk.su, Steffen Persvold , linux-kernel Subject: Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. Message-ID: <20030508135839.A6698@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Terje Eggestad , Arjan van de Ven , Alan Cox , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, D.A.Fedorov@inp.nsk.su, Steffen Persvold , linux-kernel References: <200305071507_MC3-1-37CF-FE32@compuserve.com> <1052387912.4849.43.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no> <20030508095943.B22255@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1052398474.4849.57.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1052398474.4849.57.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no>; from terje.eggestad@scali.com on Thu, May 08, 2003 at 02:54:35PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 16 On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 02:54:35PM +0200, Terje Eggestad wrote: > So what you're saying here is not that you object to having people doing > syscall hooks, just that operating on the syscall_table symbol directly > is error prone (to which I wholeheartedly agree). > > Then you reject a "proper mechanism"..... Maybe you have a different notion of proper mechanism then everyone else. BTW, you could easily have fixed your driver in the time you spent trolling on lkml.. - 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/