Re: [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: Properly register the irda binary sysctl numbers.

[email protected] writes:

> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:59:53 MDT, Eric W. Biederman said:
>
>> It looks like you don't have CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL defined, and it
>> appears utsname_syscall and ipcdata_syscall both become NULL pointers
>> if they aren't needed.  So the complaint is a false positive.
>
> Yep. Nothing I actually use needs SYSCTL_SYSCALL, so I turned it off to
> see what breaks...

Other then glibc (which uses it to see if we are on a SMP system, and
has a fallback to /proc/sys) I only found 5 other applications
binaries when I was looking hard.

Eric

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