Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751271AbWJQQRd (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:17:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751276AbWJQQRd (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:17:33 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:40337 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751271AbWJQQRd (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:17:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:19:01 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: "Jan Beulich" Cc: Subject: Re: config SYSCTL_SYSCALL Message-Id: <20061017091901.7193312a.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <453519EE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> References: <453519EE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 876 Lines: 26 On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:59:10 +0100 Jan Beulich wrote: > 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. You can't enable it (after enabling EMBEDDED)? Feel free to send a patch to remove /if EMBEDDED/ and move the Kconfig entry up above all of the EMBEDDED options. --- ~Randy - 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/