linux-kernel - Re: config SYSCTL

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Date:	Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:19:01 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: config SYSCTL_SYSCALL

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:59:10 +0100 Jan Beulich wrote:

> What is the purpose of
> 
> config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
> 	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
> 	default n
> 
> Allowing only embedded to turn this *on* ? Normally, you want
> embedded to have more freedom in turning stuff off, so this
> looks odd to me (and on one of my older boxes I definitely have
> at least one OS-provided tool that uses this syscall, so I'd like
> to be able to turn it on.

You can't enable it (after enabling EMBEDDED)?

Feel free to send a patch to remove /if EMBEDDED/
and move the Kconfig entry up above all of the EMBEDDED options.

---
~Randy
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