From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:56:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061110075640.GA15611@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ejsbnagm.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:21:13PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> > Eric, do you have a list of the remaining users? It'd be good to know for
> > people using Linux in an embedded environment, where they may want to switch
> > off the option, but only if it doesn't break their userspace.
>
> They are very very few. The ones I recall are kudzu, radvd, and
> libpthreads (which doesn't care).
Let's not forget that on ARM it's used to get the MMIO region which
is used for PIO emulation by glibc. Without it, glibc can't detect
where this region is.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-10 7:56 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 ` [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl Alan Cox
2006-11-08 20:55 ` 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 [this message]
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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