From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Miles Lane" <miles.lane@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 -- intel8x0 audio busted
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:33:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060828123344.fc580902.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p737j0s7kad.fsf@verdi.suse.de>
On 28 Aug 2006 21:05:46 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
>
> >
> > No, they're just a little warning we put in there to find out how
> > removeable sys_sysctl() is. (Answer: not very. I'll drop that patch).
>
> I made the same experiment some time ago -- all of them use only a single
> sysctl (KERN_VERSION). If that one is emulated there are basically no users
> left. I can resend a patch to warn only for those that are not KERN_VERSION
> if there is interest.
>
Yes, that would be useful, thanks.
Eric, it sounds like one way to settle this would be to keep sys_sysctl()
if CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=n, but only a stripped-down version which supports
KERN_VERSION. And which spits a once-per-boot warning so people stop using
it one day.
Or we give up and go do something else. This is all a bit of a pita.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-28 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-27 6:55 Miles Lane
2006-08-28 15:11 ` Takashi Iwai
2006-08-28 18:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-28 18:55 ` Takashi Iwai
2006-08-29 8:57 ` Miles Lane
2006-08-29 9:02 ` Takashi Iwai
2006-08-29 9:06 ` Miles Lane
2006-09-02 8:34 ` Miles Lane
2006-08-28 19:05 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-28 19:33 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060828123344.fc580902.akpm@osdl.org \
--to=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=ak@suse.de \
--cc=ebiederm@xmission.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=miles.lane@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®