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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] sys_sysfs: Add CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL
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.

Dave



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