Re: sys_call_table not exported in 2.6 kernel

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd_at_daimi.au.dk)
Date: 09/11/05 

Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 08:12:25 +0200

hondya wrote:
>
> Does anyone what is the reason behind not exporting the
> "sys_call_table" symbol in the 2.6 kernel.

It was primarily used by modules changing the table,
which they are not supposed to as it causes problems
with race conditions and it becomes impossible to
safely remove a module (which becomes even worse if
you have been stacking different modules doing this). 

-- 
Kasper Dupont
Note to self: Don't try to allocate
256000 pages with GFP_KERNEL on x86.

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