Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:33:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:32:59 -0400 Received: from rj.sgi.com ([204.94.215.100]:14255 "EHLO rj.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:32:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:33:24 -0700 From: richard offer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] export syscalls Message-ID: <100000000.1004038404@changeling.engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (Linux/x86) X-HomePage: http://www.whitequeen.com/users/richard/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * frm hch@caldera.de "10/25/2001 05:25:40 PM +0000" | sed '1,$s/^/* /' * * Hi Linus, * * the appended patch exports the syscalls (GPL-limited), this is needed * for the Linux-ABI modules so they can use the syscalls in their * syscall tables for non-Linux personalities. What is the rationale for marking these as GPL-exclusive symbols ? I thought system calls were a public interface. * Christoph * * -- * Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. [snip] * +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sys_ioctl); * +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sys_gettimeofday); [snip] richard. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Offer Technical Lead, Trust Technology, SGI "Specialization is for insects" ___________________________________________On sabatical Nov 8 -> Nov 30 - 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/