Re: linux-2.5.7

[Neil Brown]

On Saturday March 30, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> > I'm sure this has been recognised,
> > but I would point out that sys_nfsservctl is not "undefined"
> > if NFSD is not chosen.
> > 
> > The following patch to .../arch/i386/kernel/entry.S corrects this,
> > though this is obviously not the right place to put it:
> 
> Wrong fix.  Using weak aliases would do it in cleaner way, but there's
> a sparc64 toolchain bugs that don't allow that.

I cannot see the weak aliases being a real fix either.
If you compile with NFSD as a module, and with CONFIG_KMOD, then the
nfssvc_ctl systemcall is suppose to auto-load nfsd.o.  How can this be
achieved with weak aliases?

NeilBrown