Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161705AbWKHTKd (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 14:10:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161704AbWKHTKd (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 14:10:33 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]:13842 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161694AbWKHTKc (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 14:10:32 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YF+uAk6sy+GNyqcYPBfV+mwzJfKASONETs7QjsSiqGgQQLEGcEDnBiyGSAPPHl8gMUgZkPgFlmYn24Q4yYOgK7cMQlx5j0Utc0C6ccQzkTlDU5KhFvyKJydTlfxrQcwKmfbXOs8s37pZu4qn8t4NfMeYhGr4M9k1F0Qd/3JUDLA= Message-ID: <9a8748490611081110m4cc62c1bp3a36aba3fc314e56@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 20:10:30 +0100 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" , "Andi Kleen" , alan@redhat.com, "Russell King" , "Jakub Jelinek" , "Mike Galbraith" , "Albert Cahalan" , "Bill Nottingham" , "Marco Roeland" , "Michael Kerrisk" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1477 Lines: 40 On 08/11/06, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > [...] > > Since the sys_sysctl implementation needs to stay around for a while > and the worst of the maintenance issues that caused us to occasionally > break the ABI have been addressed I don't see any advantage in > continuing with the removal of sys_sysctl. > > So instead of merely increasing the deprecation period this patch > removes the deprecation of sys_sysctl and modifies the kernel to > compile the code in by default. > [...] > > config SYSCTL_SYSCALL > bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED > - default n > + default y > select SYSCTL > ---help--- > Enable the deprecated sysctl system call. sys_sysctl uses Perhaps you should also change the help text here to not say "the deprecated sysctl system call". Perhaps change to something like : "Deselect this option, to not build sysctl suport into the kernel, if you are sure you won't be running any applications that depend on the sysctl system call. If unsure, say Y." -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/