Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:33:44 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Miles Lane" <miles.lane@gmail.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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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