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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl
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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