Re: [PATCH 22/23] sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support

Russell King
2009-11-08T23:34:59Z

On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 03:31:23PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> There is not a user visible ABI change. Just a massive implementation change.
> The only user visible change is that CONFIG_SYS_SYSCALL now depends on
> CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL.
>
> The implementation of sys_sysctl in binary_sysctl.c will now read
> /proc/sys/bus/isa/portbase and using vfs_read convert the text string
> to a binary integer and return it to glibc in the form sys_sysctl has
> always used.

Right, that information was missing from the original patch. No problem
then.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/