Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:21:13PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Alistair John Strachan <[email protected]> writes:
> > Eric, do you have a list of the remaining users? It'd be good to know for 
> > people using Linux in an embedded environment, where they may want to switch 
> > off the option, but only if it doesn't break their userspace.
> 
> They are very very few.  The ones I recall are kudzu, radvd, and
> libpthreads (which doesn't care).  

Let's not forget that on ARM it's used to get the MMIO region which
is used for PIO emulation by glibc.  Without it, glibc can't detect
where this region is.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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