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Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> writes: > On Wednesday 08 November 2006 19:00, you wrote: >> The basic issue is that despite have been deprecated and warned about >> as a very bad thing in the man pages since its inception there are a >> few real users of sys_sysctl. It was my assumption that because >> sysctl had been deprecated for all of 2.6 there would be no user space >> users by this point, so I initially gave sys_sysctl a very short >> deprecation period. >> >> 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. > > Eric, do you have a list of the remaining users? It'd be good to know for > people using Linux in an embedded environment, where they may want to switch > off the option, but only if it doesn't break their userspace. They are very very few. The ones I recall are kudzu, radvd, and libpthreads (which doesn't care). There is a thread a month or so ago about this where I did a request for testers, that listed all of the users we could find. The reality is that I don't think kernel developers can seriously find them. If someone actually wants to kill sys_sysctl more power to them. As long as we don't add more binary numbers I think it is actually easier to support it than to find those weird users and remove it. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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