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From: Dirk GOUDERS <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>
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Subject: Re: preferable way to control kernel module 
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 > > Thank you for advise. But I wonder: what is wrong with syscall approach
 > > (via SYSCALL_MODULE macro)?
 > 
 > I just haven't done one personally.  I think there's also a lot more potenti
 > al 
 > for collisions when trying to pick a syscall number versus picking a string 
 > name for a sysctl or /dev entry.

Shouldn't that be no problem if he sets the offset parameter to
SYSCALL_MODULE to NO_SYSCALL (get the next free offset)?

Dirk