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disable sys_timerfd() for 2.6.23
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:46:41 +0000 (22:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:24:18 +0000 (11:24 -0700)
There is still some confusion and disagreement over what this interface should
actually do.  So it is best that we disable it in 2.6.23 until we get that
fully sorted out.

(sys_timerfd() was present in 2.6.22 but it was apparently broken, so here we
assume that nobody is using it yet).

Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
init/Kconfig

index 96b54595f1dc16e1809852ca0462184b948b54b4..d54d0cadcc064c284c10cce88beaf9c55ccf0cdd 100644 (file)
@@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ config SIGNALFD
 config TIMERFD
        bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
        select ANON_INODES
+       depends on BROKEN
        default y
        help
          Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer