From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, samuel@sortiz.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: Properly register the irda binary sysctl numbers.
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:06:28 -0600
In-Reply-To: <5846.1188326457@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (Valdis Kletnieks's
	message of "Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:40:57 -0400")
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:

> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:59:53 MDT, Eric W. Biederman said:
>
>> It looks like you don't have CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL defined, and it
>> appears utsname_syscall and ipcdata_syscall both become NULL pointers
>> if they aren't needed.  So the complaint is a false positive.
>
> Yep. Nothing I actually use needs SYSCTL_SYSCALL, so I turned it off to
> see what breaks...

Other then glibc (which uses it to see if we are on a SMP system, and
has a fallback to /proc/sys) I only found 5 other applications
binaries when I was looking hard.

Eric

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