Re: Nice values for kernel modules

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:04:16PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> There are lots of good reasons why it has been exported, e.g. ability to
> replace some system calls while leaving overall Linux personality (i.e.
> without switching to an ABI emulation).

No, that never was a good reason and has been removed by Arjan and me
in current Linux-ABI versions.

I'm all for removing it, too.
 
> Also, ability to call those system calls from a module which are not
> exported individually.

If syscalls are supposed to be used by modules they should be exported
and have proper prototypes.