Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc7

From: Andreas Gruenbacher
Date: Fri Oct 08 2010 - 17:50:39 EST


On Friday 08 October 2010 18:33:55 David Daney wrote:
> 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?

Whatever works I guess ... they would get reactivated pretty soon, anyway.

Andreas
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