From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755623AbYDUXS3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:18:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754111AbYDUXST (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:18:19 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:50851 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752150AbYDUXSS (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:18:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:18:15 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT]: Sparc Message-ID: <20080421231815.GS27459@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20080421.153231.108090227.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 04:10:00PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > > This performs the scheduled removal of Solaris and SunOS > > system call for sparc, much to the chagrin of Al Viro > > and others :-) (in particular, that asm/namei.h crud can > > now die) > > Hmm. I think this is sad. The fact is, Solaris/SunOS is the de-facto > standard for Sparc. Which makes me think that not emulating them is a real > capability loss. > > I realize that the code may be painful, but still... FWIW, two things I _really_ want dead and gone are * timod (or full rewrite of that animal; current one is badly racy and plays fast and loose with way too many place in VFS guts) * altroot (use chroot, damnit, and bind whatever you need in there) Other than that... No preferences, really.