From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754159AbZKIE4B (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:56:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753997AbZKIE4A (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:56:00 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:54048 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753729AbZKIE4A (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:56:00 -0500 Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:57:25 -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: <20091108205725.28778016@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1257682930-31401-22-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <20091108123422.GA9145@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20091108164855.595ec70d@infradead.org> 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 19:27:07 -0800 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > I just took a look and the use in linux threads that I don't warn > about is used by glibc-2.8 but not by glibc-2.10. glibc-2.11 has just > been released. so by next year when the removal is scheduled we are > looking at multiple releases of glibc that don't use sys_sysctl. So I > expect shortly I can warn about all uses of sys_sysctl without anyone > seeing a warning. hmmmmm it's still an ABI break, and while you say "oh it's 3 glibcs ago".. there's the static linking case. to be honest, I don't think we can ever remove things that are used by glibc during its startup.... -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org