Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:41:49 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] sys_sysfs: Add CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL |
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:38:32PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 05:31:41PM -0500, Dave Jones 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 <fabf@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 ? > > sys_sysfs doesn't have anything to do with /sys/ and udev in any way > that I know of, it's a much older thing, a sysv syscall that can return > the index, name, or max index of a filesystem. > > And yes, I got confused by it all the time when creating sysfs :)
ah, Now I realise I've also made this mistake before. Tricky.
I wonder if anything does still use it though.. *goes to grep all of Fedora source*
Dave
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