On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:07:50AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This patch makes sysctl non-optional unless EMBEDDED is set. There
> > are a number of interfaces exposed via sysctl, enough that it has to
> > be considered core kernel functionality at this point.
>
> is this to help the user to configure the kernel or is it to remove
> complexity (you just introduced some)
Obviously the first.
I don't see how his patch affects complexity in any way. The patch is
both small and obvious (and CONFIG_SYSCTL=n is still a valid and
supported configuration).
> Gruss
> Bernd
cu
Adrian
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