Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:55:26 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 15:49 -0500, 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.
isn't kernel version passed as AT vector nowadays?
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