On 10/20/10 00:00, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
To the best of my knowledge the last and user of sys_sysctl is the glibc ioperm (my apologies I mispoke when I said iopl) implementation on arm. Not that people run around calling ioperm very often in any distro.
I saw that in Changelog of glibc too, but that was back to 2000, 10 years past, I don't see any code using sysctl() in glibc now, except sys_sysctl() itself, of course.
All of that said I think disabling sys_sysctl by default now is totally reasonable. If there is a percentage in removing the code we can worry about that later. Perhaps we should add a CONFIG_CRUFT and move sys_sysctl under there. Binary compatibility that nothing needs but that we actually have code for just in case.
But you put sysctl in features-removal-schedule.txt 3 years ago. :) I believe they should see the kernel warnings if they are still using sysctl. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
