Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:27:03 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl |
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Alan Cox wrote: > 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.
uname() provides the kernel version.
-hpa
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