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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>

  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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