ATI modules using the _syscall() macro for unexported syscalls (was: Re: Fw: Re: [patch 02/11] uml: fix compilation for missing headers)

[Blaisorblade]

On Saturday 15 January 2005 11:03, Andrew Morton wrote:
> David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[....]
> I'm not sure that we even use errno any more.  The only syscall trap which
> the kernel internally takes now is execve().  Everything else is (or should
> be) just calling the sys_foo() function directly.

The ATI kernel modules reportedly use the syscall() facility to call 
modify_ldt, which I guess is not exported... I've received the report of this 
because that causes a name conflict with the SKAS patch I maintain.

Also, I have the doubt is that they're circumventing EXPORT_SYMBOL 
restrictions and thus violating the license. IANAL, however.
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

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