On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:43:19 -0800 Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:31:41 -0500 Dave Jones <da...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:09:42PM +0800, Fabian Frederick wrote: > > > sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported by libc ... > > > -This patch adds a default CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL=y > > > -Option can be turned off in expert mode. > > > -cond_syscall added to kernel/sys_ni.c > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <f...@skynet.be> > > > --- > > > fs/filesystems.c | 2 ++ > > > init/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ > > > kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 + > > > 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+) > > > > did anyone ever ship userspace that actually used that syscall ? > > Some ancient version of udev that probably doesn't work on a modern kernel > > anyway maybe ? > > > > I wonder if it's something we can make -ENOSYS unconditionally at some > > point, > > and remove all that code entirely. > > Perhaps we could make it `default n' now and see if we receive nastygrams? As it seems very old, maybe we wouldn't have any trouble for users in linux-next but it could break something when going in stable (?).Having that patch with functions enabled by default will give us time to test it and have a pointer to it to remove later... Fabian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
