Re: config SYSCTL_SYSCALL

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:59:10 +0100 Jan Beulich wrote:

> What is the purpose of
> 
> config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
> 	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
> 	default n
> 
> Allowing only embedded to turn this *on* ? Normally, you want
> embedded to have more freedom in turning stuff off, so this
> looks odd to me (and on one of my older boxes I definitely have
> at least one OS-provided tool that uses this syscall, so I'd like
> to be able to turn it on.

You can't enable it (after enabling EMBEDDED)?

Feel free to send a patch to remove /if EMBEDDED/
and move the Kconfig entry up above all of the EMBEDDED options.

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~Randy
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