Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:33:44 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 -- intel8x0 audio busted |
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On 28 Aug 2006 21:05:46 +0200 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes: > > > > > No, they're just a little warning we put in there to find out how > > removeable sys_sysctl() is. (Answer: not very. I'll drop that patch). > > I made the same experiment some time ago -- all of them use only a single > sysctl (KERN_VERSION). If that one is emulated there are basically no users > left. I can resend a patch to warn only for those that are not KERN_VERSION > if there is interest. >
Yes, that would be useful, thanks.
Eric, it sounds like one way to settle this would be to keep sys_sysctl() if CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=n, but only a stripped-down version which supports KERN_VERSION. And which spits a once-per-boot warning so people stop using it one day.
Or we give up and go do something else. This is all a bit of a pita.
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