On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 04:10:00PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > > This performs the scheduled removal of Solaris and SunOS > > system call for sparc, much to the chagrin of Al Viro > > and others :-) (in particular, that asm/namei.h crud can > > now die) > > Hmm. I think this is sad. The fact is, Solaris/SunOS is the de-facto > standard for Sparc. Which makes me think that not emulating them is a real > capability loss. > > I realize that the code may be painful, but still... FWIW, two things I _really_ want dead and gone are * timod (or full rewrite of that animal; current one is badly racy and plays fast and loose with way too many place in VFS guts) * altroot (use chroot, damnit, and bind whatever you need in there) Other than that... No preferences, really. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
