Re: [GIT]: Sparc

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 04:10:00PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > This performs the scheduled removal of Solaris and SunOS
> > system call for sparc, much to the chagrin of Al Viro
> > and others :-) (in particular, that asm/namei.h crud can
> > now die)
> 
> Hmm. I think this is sad. The fact is, Solaris/SunOS is the de-facto 
> standard for Sparc. Which makes me think that not emulating them is a real 
> capability loss. 
> 
> I realize that the code may be painful, but still...

FWIW, two things I _really_ want dead and gone are
	* timod (or full rewrite of that animal; current one is badly racy
and plays fast and loose with way too many place in VFS guts)
	* altroot (use chroot, damnit, and bind whatever you need in there)

Other than that...  No preferences, really.
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