From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, 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: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:27:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455364E7.80509@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061108204948.GC20284@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.
uname() provides the kernel version.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-09 17:27 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 [this message]
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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