From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423682AbWKHUuT (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:50:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423712AbWKHUuT (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:50:19 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:63158 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423699AbWKHUuQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:50:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:49:48 -0500 From: Alan Cox To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , alan@redhat.com, Russell King , Jakub Jelinek , Mike Galbraith , Albert Cahalan , Bill Nottingham , Marco Roeland , Michael Kerrisk Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl Message-ID: <20061108204948.GC20284@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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