Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754224AbYGGOQc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:16:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753300AbYGGOQY (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:16:24 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:24432 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752979AbYGGOQX (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:16:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=a7UUyUtrjmhlQFxSn7mRju4k7fct0QDNcocqb8D6RxGSapCNayqZGBHb2Yu0HWlhVD 5N6eDeTiPSZ5P+nFcf2QnSeukSEmMHT7zTOLgyIBmW8YEpj+Lmyz8aVVvtJKDjfoZjd5 7i/dAPqBqzR3GxADgAfi+NAJsibNFiY68wh2A= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:16:21 +0200 From: "Bart Van Assche" To: "Jinkai Gao" Subject: Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for itself Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Arjan van de Ven" , "Jan Engelhardt" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 16 On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Jinkai Gao wrote: > Why the number of system calls is growing? because the kernel is > growing. why we don't use the alternatives to implement the new need > for system calls? Because it doesn't make any sense. We can't ignore > the kernel modules' need for system calls just because they are > loadable. Arjan and Jan have already explained in detail why adding system calls dynamically is troublesome. Bart. -- 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/