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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 09:48:38 +1000 (EST)
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Cc: Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.5.7
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On Saturday March 30, viro@math.psu.edu wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> > I'm sure this has been recognised,
> > but I would point out that sys_nfsservctl is not "undefined"
> > if NFSD is not chosen.
> > 
> > The following patch to .../arch/i386/kernel/entry.S corrects this,
> > though this is obviously not the right place to put it:
> 
> Wrong fix.  Using weak aliases would do it in cleaner way, but there's
> a sparc64 toolchain bugs that don't allow that.

I cannot see the weak aliases being a real fix either.
If you compile with NFSD as a module, and with CONFIG_KMOD, then the
nfssvc_ctl systemcall is suppose to auto-load nfsd.o.  How can this be
achieved with weak aliases?

NeilBrown
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