From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750961AbWJQVrm (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:47:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750962AbWJQVrm (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:47:42 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:61339 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750960AbWJQVrl (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:47:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore sysctl syscall option for non-embedded users From: Alan Cox To: Cal Peake Cc: Randy Dunlap , Jan Beulich , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Eric Biederman In-Reply-To: References: <453519EE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20061017091901.7193312a.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:11:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1161123096.5014.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Maw, 2006-10-17 am 14:17 -0400, ysgrifennodd Cal Peake: > My dmesg gets spammed to all hell with these warnings. Can we keep this > option easily visible till it gets ripped out Jan of 2007 (see > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for reference)? NAK The problem is that this option is available at all. Deprecating syscalls especially trivial ones is fundamentally wrong. The correct fix is to make sysctl always present except as an option for embedded and not to deprecate it.