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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. > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig > index c8b2624..e85e554 100644 > --- a/init/Kconfig > +++ b/init/Kconfig > @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ config UID16 > > config SYSCTL_SYSCALL > bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED > - default n > + default y > select SYSCTL > ---help--- > Enable the deprecated sysctl system call. sys_sysctl uses > -- > 1.4.2.rc3.g7e18e-dirty Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> - 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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