Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751176AbWJQP5o (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:57:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751177AbWJQP5o (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:57:44 -0400 Received: from public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:61473 "EHLO emea1-mh.id2.novell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751176AbWJQP5n (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:57:43 -0400 Message-Id: <453519EE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.1 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:59:10 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" To: Subject: config SYSCTL_SYSCALL Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 655 Lines: 19 What is the purpose of config SYSCTL_SYSCALL bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED default n Allowing only embedded to turn this *on* ? Normally, you want embedded to have more freedom in turning stuff off, so this looks odd to me (and on one of my older boxes I definitely have at least one OS-provided tool that uses this syscall, so I'd like to be able to turn it on. Thanks for an explanation, Jan - 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/