I see we have a new "call_usermodehelper" routine now. It looks like the end result is similer to exec_usermodehelper, except that you no longer need to mess with creating kernel threads yourself. Is call_usermodehelper now the officially blessed way for kernel code to run something in user space? Perhaps exec_usermodehelper should become private to kmod.c? I also see that call_usermodehelper will call do_exit() if the exec fails, while the path taken in request_module does not do that. Can both be right? Thanks, jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
