On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 02:01:59PM +0800, Peiyong Feng wrote: > 2012/6/23 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:18:29PM +0800, Peiyong Feng wrote: > >> 2012/6/23 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:20:35AM +0800, Peiyong Feng wrote: > >> >> Hi all, > >> >> > >> >> This patch implement the uhook kernel driver. Here are some ideals and > >> >> explanations: > >> >> > >> >> 1. What is uhook > >> >> > >> >> uhook(userspace kernel hook) means call kernel function from > >> >> userspace. That is to say, we can > >> >> > >> >> write a function in kernel space and call it in userspace while the > >> >> kernel Image is running. For example: > >> > > >> > That's, um, "interesting", but is of course, nothing we can accept into > >> > the main kernel tree, as I'm sure you can understand. Otherwise, you > >> > just created a few thousand undocumented system calls whose behavior > >> > changes every release which is not something we can accept. > >> > > >> > But it is a great hack, very nicely done. I'm sure that some people > >> > will like it for debugging, although I'm not quite sure you got all of > >> > >> Well, is there some other tree I can commit the patch? > > > > What do you mean by this? > > I mean that although the main line kernel cannot accept this patch, and > uhook is very useful to play a rule as a debug tool. Is there some where else > that can hold this tool, and let more people use the uhook? Not that I know of. As someone pointed out, use github to host it on your own if you want, that is probably the best. greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
