Re: Quota patches

Martin Dalecki
2002-05-24T16:03:16Z

Uz.ytkownik Christoph Hellwig napisa?:
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:12:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>>>>Of course you can. Even the latest OpenLinux release (shipping 2.4.13-ac)
>>>>uses a libc4/a.out based installer fo space reasons. Not to forget the
>>>>old quake1 binary from some redhat 4.x CD I run from time to time :)
>>>
>>>OK thanks for the *substantial* answer. That was the reason I was asking about.
>>>Somehow this is of course surprising me of course.
>>
>>So why didn't you -test- the theory before suggesting it. It btw goes beyond
>>Libc4. Currently we have almost 100% compatibility back to libc 2.2.2. The
>>dated libc before that doesn't work because we dropped some very very
>>early obscure versions of a few syscalls.
>>
>>Is it too much to ask that you go and look through the syscall tables of
>>old and new kernels ?
>
>
> For 2.5 I have some plans to make obsolete syscalls depend on CONFIG_COMPAT_*,
> this allows to compile big and bloated kernel for compatiblity and smaller
> kernels without that (e.g. for embedded devices). And in fact we have quite
> a loft of cruft that can go away for setups only having very modern userspace..

I second this!