Re: [PATCH] Problems disabling SYSCTL

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:50:01AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> > > Is there any reason to not move the sys32_sysctl code to kernel/sysctl.c?
> > 
> > iirc it relies on a unified address space (= user pointers still
> > work in KERNEL_DS) 
> 
> Yeah the sys32_sysctl code is pretty awful, perhaps we could do a better
> job now we have compat_alloc_userspace.

It also mishandles array of longs.

But seriously I wouldn't bother - the syscall interface is deprecated anyways
and has been for a long time. The only sysctl that needs to be handled
is (CTL_KERN,KERN_VERSION) [used by glibc], the others are not needed
and I hoep to eventually remove them even natively.

-Andi

P.S.: Andrew I just discovered you removed the printk code for this.
That's not good, how are users supposed to know it's deprecated?
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