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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: linux-2.5.7 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 2002 09:48:38 +1000."
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On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 09:48:38 +1000 (EST), 
Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>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?

System calls cannot be in modules.  Linus forbids it (that way lies
"extend and embrace") and at least two architectures (ia64, ppc64)
break when a syscall is in a module.

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