linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: Properly register the irda binary sysctl numbers.

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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:40:57 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, samuel@...tiz.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: Properly register the irda binary sysctl numbers.

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:59:53 MDT, Eric W. Biederman said:

> It looks like you don't have CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL defined, and it
> appears utsname_syscall and ipcdata_syscall both become NULL pointers
> if they aren't needed.  So the complaint is a false positive.

Yep. Nothing I actually use needs SYSCTL_SYSCALL, so I turned it off to
see what breaks...

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