Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752458AbaBMWcV (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:32:21 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:19113 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751320AbaBMWcU (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:32:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:31:41 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Fabian Frederick Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm , rdunlap , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] sys_sysfs: Add CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL Message-ID: <20140213223141.GA1232@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Fabian Frederick , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm , rdunlap , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org References: <20140213220942.ff2ebaeff3876b7136fa4b10@skynet.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140213220942.ff2ebaeff3876b7136fa4b10@skynet.be> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:09:42PM +0800, Fabian Frederick wrote: > sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported by libc ... > -This patch adds a default CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL=y > -Option can be turned off in expert mode. > -cond_syscall added to kernel/sys_ni.c > > Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick > --- > fs/filesystems.c | 2 ++ > init/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ > kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 + > 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+) did anyone ever ship userspace that actually used that syscall ? Some ancient version of udev that probably doesn't work on a modern kernel anyway maybe ? I wonder if it's something we can make -ENOSYS unconditionally at some point, and remove all that code entirely. Dave -- 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/