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
next prev parent 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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