On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 13:38 -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > > Again, you're on your own in 2.4 for doing such a horrible hack :) > > > > Haven't we been over this before on this list? > > I'm not interested in discussing the hack. I asked about the history > and purpose of __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__. once upon a time it was thought a needed evil to do system calls from kernel space... but now a nice workaround has been found (in 2.6) and it's no longer needed, so the evil hack is going away. (and on modern cpu it's also really expensive) -- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
