From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752788AbZKIArf (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:47:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751406AbZKIAre (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:47:34 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:60432 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751092AbZKIAre (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:47:34 -0500 Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:48:55 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Leo Chen Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/23] sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support Message-ID: <20091108164855.595ec70d@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1257682930-31401-22-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <20091108123422.GA9145@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:05:05 -0800 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > > > The practical difference is that /proc support now must be compiled > > in to support sys_sysctl. > > But thanks for the reminder that I need to go into glibc and fix this > before we disable the sys_sysctl emulation by default. how are you dealing with existing glibcs ? Or with static linked binaries? or.. or .. breaking a heavily used ABI like this is not going to be pretty or even sane, no matter which way you hate the current one. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org