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Message-ID: <455364E7.80509@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:27:03 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
	Bill Nottingham <notting@...hat.com>,
	Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@...all.nl>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:00:10PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Now that I know there are a few real users the only sane way to
>> proceed with deprecation is to push the time limit out to a year or
>> two work and work with distributions that have big testing pools like
>> fedora core to find these last remaining users.
> 
> Some early boot code needs to know the kernel version and
> it needs to do it before /proc is mounted and potentially in order
> to run mount. In places it has its role but only in places.

uname() provides the kernel version.

	-hpa


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