Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:54:29 +0100, 
David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This seems to me the best idea. However I would argue against dynamically
>> allocating syscalls. Reserving numbers makes for better code and allows you
>> to do autoloading.
>
>Now there's an idea... have the kernel autoload modules based on a particular
>syscall number being handled in that module. Madness *grin*.

No more madness than kmod loading a module called char-major-10-135 for
/dev/rtc.  Or code that uses modules.pcimap to work out which module to
load for a PCI device.  Just teach kmod to load syscall-agent-86 if you
want to get smart.

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