From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
alan@redhat.com, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>,
Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>,
Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@xs4all.nl>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:49:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061108204948.GC20284@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1zmb13gsl.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:00:10PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Now that I know there are a few real users the only sane way to
> proceed with deprecation is to push the time limit out to a year or
> two work and work with distributions that have big testing pools like
> fedora core to find these last remaining users.
Some early boot code needs to know the kernel version and
it needs to do it before /proc is mounted and potentially in order
to run mount. In places it has its role but only in places.
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index c8b2624..e85e554 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ config UID16
>
> config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
> bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
> - default n
> + default y
> select SYSCTL
> ---help---
> Enable the deprecated sysctl system call. sys_sysctl uses
> --
> 1.4.2.rc3.g7e18e-dirty
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-08 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-08 19:00 [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-08 19:10 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-11-08 19:58 ` [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl (take 2) Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-10 6:50 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-10 7:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-11 5:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-11-08 20:49 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-11-08 20:55 ` [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-09 17:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-11-09 23:17 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-11-10 5:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-10 7:56 ` Russell King
2006-11-10 8:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-11 8:04 ` Russell King
2006-11-10 8:50 ` Alistair John Strachan
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