Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc7

From: David Daney
Date: Fri Oct 08 2010 - 12:34:58 EST


On 10/08/2010 05:06 AM, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
On Thursday 07 October 2010 19:49:28 Eric Paris wrote:
The safest thing would probably be to punt the syscalls to 2.6.37.
Which is sad since I know a number of people are already working against
them, but maybe that proves it's the best approach?

I agree with removing the syscalls from 2.6.36 because of the following
reasons:

How would the mechanics of this be achieved?

Is it enough to just unconditionally return -ENOSYS from the sys_*() functions? Or should all the patches be reverted?

David Daney


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