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From: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>
To: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>,
	Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@osdl.org" <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 + hotfix -- Many processes use the sysctl system call
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:40:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060819024020.GD720@slug> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060819003037.GB6440@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu>

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:30:37AM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:23:54PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > "fixed"?  Why is sysctl being removed in the middle of a stable kernel
> > series?!?
> 
> IMHO the stable series is 2.6.x.y nowadays. 2.6.z (without a fourth
> number) is more or less what used to be 2.<odd> previously.
Not to mention we're dealing with a -mm kernel...

Regards,
Frederik
> 
> > I thought the new golden rule was "don't break userspace"?
> 
> AFAIK nothing is broken, but the messages are annoying. Especially since
> 99.9% of the time they're caused not by the applications but by glibc.
> So the message should be heavily rate limited at least, if that's not
> already done.
> 
> Gabor
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-19  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-17 22:41 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 + hotfix -- Many processes use the sysctl system call Miles Lane
2006-08-17 22:45 ` Lee Revell
2006-08-18 14:46   ` Mattia Dongili
2006-08-18 16:23     ` Lee Revell
2006-08-18 17:00       ` Alan Cox
2006-08-19  0:30       ` Gabor Gombas
2006-08-19  2:40         ` Frederik Deweerdt [this message]
2006-08-19  0:49           ` Lee Revell
2006-08-18 10:30 ` Frederik Deweerdt

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