Re: [PATCH] unexport do_execve/do_select

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 13:17:00 EST


On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:02:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2004-09-07 at 16:00, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > These are basically shared code for native/32bit compat code, but as
> > CONFIG_COMPAT is a bool there's no need to export them.
>
> do_select at least used to be used by the xABI compatibility modules, is
> that no longer the case ?

For Sparc, the only inkernel one that can be modular - no. For the x86
ABI modules half of the syscalls needs to be exported so the patch is
huge anyway.
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