[PATCH v3] add kexec_load() syscall

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.com
Wed May 23 20:49:00 GMT 2012


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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