Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 3 May 2004, David Mosberger wrote:
> 
> Why not just disallow user-level use of the _syscall() macros.

I'm thinking we should disallow the system-calls entirely. User mode
should be using their own macros, and kernel mode should just do the
function call directly.

How much work would that be? I suspect it would be less work than worrying 
about the existing strange interfaces.

		Linus
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