linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc7

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Message-ID: <4CAF47F3.3070800@caviumnetworks.com>
Date:	Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:33:55 -0700
From:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
To:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
CC:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...hos.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc7

On 10/08/2010 05:06 AM, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Thursday 07 October 2010 19:49:28 Eric Paris wrote:
>> The safest thing would probably be to punt the syscalls to 2.6.37.
>> Which is sad since I know a number of people are already working against
>> them, but maybe that proves it's the best approach?
>
> I agree with removing the syscalls from 2.6.36 because of the following
> reasons:

How would the mechanics of this be achieved?

Is it enough to just unconditionally return -ENOSYS from the sys_*() 
functions?  Or should all the patches be reverted?

David Daney


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