Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261352AbVALUZU (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:25:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261402AbVALUYa (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:24:30 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]:37349 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261352AbVALURY (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:17:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:16:56 -0800 From: Matt Mackall To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: David Lang , Jesper Juhl , Andries Brouwer , "Barry K. Nathan" , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Lukasz Trabinski , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] make uselib configurable (was Re: uselib() & 2.6.X?) Message-ID: <20050112201656.GK2995@waste.org> References: <20050111235907.GG2760@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20050111223641.GA27100@logos.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050111223641.GA27100@logos.cnet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1311 Lines: 30 On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:36:41PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > >>There are more ancient system calls, like old_stat and oldolduname. > > >>Do we want separate options for each system call that is obsoleted? > > >> > > >IMO, no, we do not. > > > > how about something like the embedded, experimental, and broken options. > > that way normal users can disable all of them at a stroke, people who need > > them can add them in. > > Thats just not an option - you would have zillions of config options. > > Moreover this is a system call, and the system call interface is one of the few > supposed to be stable. You shouldnt simply assume that "no one will ever use sys_uselib()" - > there might be programs out there who use it. > > I agree with Andries. In -tiny, I've added config options for disabling _many_ syscalls (but not this one). They all go under EMBEDDED. And then I changed the description of EMBEDDED to imply that changing anything takes you into nonstandard, unsupported territory. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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/