Re: 2.6.4-mm1: unknown symbols cauased byremove-more-KERNEL_SYSCALLS.patch

Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-12T19:48:59Z

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On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:42:36PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:11:50AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 10:48, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> >
> > > But then the removal of KERNEL_SYSCALLS becomes hostage to those drivers,
> > > and nobody is working on them. It'll never happen.
> >
> > CONFIG_BROKEN ??
>
> These are working drivers, and it's a stable kernel series...

for some value of working...
I mean, I'm not convinced the code is actually secure
(what if the fd they use is shared via a thread and userland is mucking
about with that fd to do funky stuff ???)

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