On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:43:21AM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote: > > > I wonder how the kernel will know which module to be loaded. > > > > The kernel doesn't know, it just asks modprobe to do the dirty job. > > Anyway. How does the kernel know it should load a module? It sure does > know when device is open (if it has no driver, it composes alias from > the major number (eq. char-major-36) and asks modprobe to load this). But > when a syscall is not installed... There is no such thing as loadable syscalls in linux so your problem doesn't exist. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
