Re: [PATCH] Make sysenter support optional

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 07:04:42PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > It's under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Think uclibc. Think systems without
> > interactive shells.
> 
> Interactive or not has absolutely nothing to do with this.

Ok, let me be explicit: think systems with absolutely no facility for
recording or displaying a backtrace.

> And other
> libcs have the same issues wrt to backtraces.

As far as I'm aware, uclibc has no vdso support, so it might as well
not exist for systems using it.

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