Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:18:26 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Death of KERN_JAVA_* sysctl |
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On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 03:43:33PM -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> Like this? (From patch-2.3.9) > > --- v2.3.8/linux/include/linux/sysctl.h Thu Jun 3 16:21:47 1999 > +++ linux/include/linux/sysctl.h Fri Jun 25 01:05:12 1999 > @@ -82,8 +82,6 @@ > KERN_PANIC=15, /* int: panic timeout */ > KERN_REALROOTDEV=16, /* real root device to mount after > initrd */ > > - KERN_JAVA_INTERPRETER=19, /* path to Java(tm) interpreter */ > - KERN_JAVA_APPLETVIEWER=20, /* path to Java(tm) appletviewer */ > KERN_SPARC_REBOOT=21, /* reboot command on Sparc */ > KERN_CTLALTDEL=22, /* int: allow ctl-alt-del to reboot */ > KERN_PRINTK=23, /* struct: control printk logging > parameters */ > > Does that mean that it shouldn't have been done?
Nope, that was ok.
Once uppon a time the enums didn't explicitly assign constants and that was more than once the cause for broken kernels because removing a line would change the numbering for all following members of the enum.
Ralf
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