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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:40:20 +0000
From: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>
To: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>,
       Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "akpm@osdl.org" <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 + hotfix -- Many processes use the sysctl system call
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On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:30:37AM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:23:54PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > "fixed"?  Why is sysctl being removed in the middle of a stable kernel
> > series?!?
> 
> IMHO the stable series is 2.6.x.y nowadays. 2.6.z (without a fourth
> number) is more or less what used to be 2.<odd> previously.
Not to mention we're dealing with a -mm kernel...

Regards,
Frederik
> 
> > I thought the new golden rule was "don't break userspace"?
> 
> AFAIK nothing is broken, but the messages are annoying. Especially since
> 99.9% of the time they're caused not by the applications but by glibc.
> So the message should be heavily rate limited at least, if that's not
> already done.
> 
> Gabor
> 
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