From: Andrew Morton commit e42601973b1bce1d2987f82159c1ebeaccc6b310 in mainline. There is still some confusion and disagreement over what this interface should actually do. So it is best that we disable it in 2.6.23 until we get that fully sorted out. (sys_timerfd() was present in 2.6.22 but it was apparently broken, so here we assume that nobody is using it yet). Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Davide Libenzi Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- init/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -505,6 +505,7 @@ config SIGNALFD config TIMERFD bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED depends on ANON_INODES + depends on BROKEN default y help Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/