Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932203AbWJFTGl (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:06:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932450AbWJFTGl (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:06:41 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:43714 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932203AbWJFTGk (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:06:40 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Linus Torvalds Cc: caszonyi@rdslink.ro, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Merge window closed: v2.6.19-rc1 References: Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:05:14 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:12:10 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1436 Lines: 39 Linus Torvalds writes: > On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote: >> >> In dmesg: >> warning: process `sleep' used the removed sysctl system call >> warning: process `alsactl' used the removed sysctl system call >> warning: process `nscd' used the removed sysctl system call >> warning: process `tail' used the removed sysctl system call > > You need to compile with CONFIG_SYSCLT set to 'y' rather than 'n'. > > Alternatively, you can probably fix it by just upgrading user-land, but > the SYSCLT thing _does_ still exist, it's just deprecated and defaults to > off by default.. > > (Or you can possibly even choose to just ignore the warnings, they > probably won't affect any actual behaviour) I'm tempted to submit a patch that just kills the warning. The only known user is lipthreads from glibc performing. if ! uname -v | grep "SMP" ; then .... fi That code if it gets -ENOSYS reads /proc/sys/kernel/version, and it has worked this way since the day it was written. I have been looking for other uses of sys_sysctl but I haven't found any. Why glibc doesn't call uname like any normal program when it wants to uname information is beyond me. Eric - 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/