preferable way to control kernel module

Matthew N. Dodd winter at jurai.net
Fri Aug 12 01:50:19 GMT 2005


On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Julian Elischer wrote:
> In the past, I've used a sysctl to communicate out the syscall number.
>
> you only need to do the syscall once,
> and it confirms to the program that the syscall is correctly installed.

Why not just use a sysctl period?  Think of it as "syscall by name".

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