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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] sys_sysfs: Add CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:31:41 -0500 Dave Jones <davej@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 <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 ?
>
> 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?


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