On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 08:45:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 at 06:35, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > we've been carrying sysfs() around since forever and we marked the > > sysfs() system call as deprecated in 2018 iiuc. > > > > Should we try and get rid of this odd system call or at least flip the > > config switch to default to N instead of Y? > > We can certainly try. But I bet it's used somewhere. Deprecation > warnings tend to mean nothing ;( So let's try to decouple if from CONFIG_EXPERT and switch the default to N and see what happens. > > > (Another candidate that comes to mind is uselib().) > > That one is already 'default n' since a few years ago, and only > enabled on some legacy architectures that still use a.out: > > default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC > > so ... Ok, let's try and shed it.
