Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:00:16 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Restore sysctl syscall option for non-embedded users |
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:11:36 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Ar Maw, 2006-10-17 am 14:17 -0400, ysgrifennodd Cal Peake: > > My dmesg gets spammed to all hell with these warnings. Can we keep this > > option easily visible till it gets ripped out Jan of 2007 (see > > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for reference)? > > NAK > > The problem is that this option is available at all. Deprecating > syscalls especially trivial ones is fundamentally wrong. The correct fix > is to make sysctl always present except as an option for embedded and > not to deprecate it.
yes, it appears that we screwed that up, but I haven't got around to thinking about it yet.
It does appear that so many things are using sys_sysctl() that any plan to remove it completely is over-optimistic.
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