Re: Auto-generate module-loadable syscall table?

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 8 May 2015, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> | Well, there's already a MODULAR keyword for kern/makesyscalls.sh so it
> | doesn't seem to be so difficult to possibly add one more parameter to
> | those lines (to identify the name of the containing module).  Then the
> | MODULAR syscalls could all be listed in a new generated source file
> | (perhaps kern/syscalls_autoload.h) and be included whereever neeeded
> | (for now, that means kern/kern_syscall.h AFAICT).
> |
> | Or am I totally misunderstanding this comment from kern/Makefile?
> |
> |  	MODULAR:attempt to autoload system call if not present
>
> No, looks right to me. Actually the list is inconsistent right now (lfs for
> example) so if you auto-gen it, it will be better.

Yeah, the existing inconsistencies concerned me.  They'll just get worse 
if we continue with manual maintenance of the auto load table.

Let me have a look at updating makesyscalls.sh ...


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