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Re: [PATCH v3] add kexec_load() syscall
On 05/23/2012 06:34 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
Motivation is to axe the syscall maze in kexec-tools itself and
> have this syscall supported in glibc for installers or other
> interested projects (kexecboot, ..).
I'm not really convinced this is worthwhile. Calling 'syscall'
seems quite sufficient for such arcane and rarely-used calls.
So, what do others think? Should maximilian continue to clean up this
and get it integrated - or should we reject this because of the few users?
Andreas
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