From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: remove sysctl syscall
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:06:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBE86E0.3050505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1eibmdvew.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
On 10/20/10 00:00, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge the last and user of sys_sysctl is the glibc
> ioperm (my apologies I mispoke when I said iopl) implementation on arm.
> Not that people run around calling ioperm very often in any distro.
I saw that in Changelog of glibc too, but that was back to 2000, 10 years
past, I don't see any code using sysctl() in glibc now, except sys_sysctl()
itself, of course.
>
> All of that said I think disabling sys_sysctl by default now is totally
> reasonable. If there is a percentage in removing the code we can worry
> about that later. Perhaps we should add a CONFIG_CRUFT and move
> sys_sysctl under there. Binary compatibility that nothing needs but
> that we actually have code for just in case.
But you put sysctl in features-removal-schedule.txt 3 years ago. :)
I believe they should see the kernel warnings if they are still using
sysctl.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 8:22 [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: refactor __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax() Amerigo Wang
2010-10-19 8:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: remove sysctl syscall Amerigo Wang
2010-10-19 13:22 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-19 13:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-19 15:04 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-19 16:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-20 6:06 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2010-10-20 13:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-21 9:26 ` Cong Wang
2010-10-19 14:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-19 15:05 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-20 5:41 ` Cong Wang
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