Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263097AbVALFLv (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:11:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263029AbVALFLu (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:11:50 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:43700 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263097AbVALFJs (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:09:48 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] make uselib configurable (was Re: uselib() & 2.6.X?) From: Stephen Pollei To: "Barry K. Nathan" Cc: Andries Brouwer , Linus Torvalds , Marcelo Tosatti , Alan Cox , Lukasz Trabinski , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050112021246.GE4325@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> References: <20050107170712.GK29176@logos.cnet> <1105136446.7628.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050107221255.GA8749@logos.cnet> <20050111225127.GD4378@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> <20050111235907.GG2760@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20050112021246.GE4325@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-YzGYaF8HpP+TB7pa1p5w" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 11 Jan 2005 21:11:40 -0800 Message-Id: <1105506703.977.19.camel@fury> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2060 Lines: 60 --=-YzGYaF8HpP+TB7pa1p5w Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 18:12, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > > There are more ancient system calls, like old_stat and oldolduname. > > Do we want separate options for each system call that is obsoleted? > A config option for each one would be a bit much, I'll agree. However, > I think having a single config option for the whole bunch would be a > good idea.=20 =20 > less controversial than trying to do all of the old syscalls now. Well the most controversial one-stop option could be a by date option. CONFIG_OBSOLETE_TIME could default to 199201 or whatever then you could then make things obsolete by wrapping them with #if CONFIG_OBSOLETE_TIME <=3D 199805 /* old stat stuff */ #endif #if CONFIG_OBSOLETE_TIME <=3D 200211 /* old uname stuff */ #endif #if CONFIG_OBSOLETE_TIME <=3D 200501 /* uselib */ #endif Then people could select with one option just to what extent they want to support old crufty stuff. So one person could go super lean and mean by choosing 200502 , while another could choose 200000 just to have things from this century. Most people could just leave it alone. --=20 http://dmoz.org/profiles/pollei.html http://sourceforge.net/users/stephen_pollei/ http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=3D2455954990164098214 http://stephen_pollei.home.comcast.net/ GPG Key fingerprint =3D EF6F 1486 EC27 B5E7 E6E1 3C01 910F 6BB5 4A7D 9677 --=-YzGYaF8HpP+TB7pa1p5w Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBB5LGMkQ9rtUp9lncRAvrhAKCRBiQLkK+rQt1kMso542K9Taf3zACfcvOH rBXLgEZvSWl3YH8FeGGLFjQ= =pyh5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YzGYaF8HpP+TB7pa1p5w-- - 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/