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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	rdunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] sys_sysfs: Add CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:31:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140213223141.GA1232@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140213220942.ff2ebaeff3876b7136fa4b10@skynet.be>

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:09:42PM +0800, Fabian Frederick wrote:
 > sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported by libc ...
 > -This patch adds a default CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL=y
 > -Option can be turned off in expert mode.
 > -cond_syscall added to kernel/sys_ni.c
 > 
 > Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
 > ---
 >  fs/filesystems.c |  2 ++
 >  init/Kconfig     | 10 ++++++++++
 >  kernel/sys_ni.c  |  1 +
 >  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

did anyone ever ship userspace that actually used that syscall ?
Some ancient version of udev that probably doesn't work on a modern kernel anyway maybe ?

I wonder if it's something we can make -ENOSYS unconditionally at some point,
and remove all that code entirely.

	Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-13 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-13 14:09 [PATCH 1/1] sys_sysfs: Add CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL Fabian Frederick
2014-02-13 22:31 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2014-02-13 22:38   ` Greg KH
2014-02-13 22:41     ` Dave Jones
2014-02-13 22:43   ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-19 12:49     ` Fabian Frederick

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