Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:31:15 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2] Undeprecate the sysctl system call |
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:41:01 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Ar Mer, 2006-10-18 am 12:20 -0400, ysgrifennodd Cal Peake: > > Until something better comes along this'll get us back to the status quo. > > > > @Andrew, this patch is a replacement for the one from yesterday. > > > > From: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net> > > > > Undeprecate the sysctl system call and default to always include it with > > the option for embedded folks to exclude it. Also, remove it's entry from > > the feature removal file and fixup the comment in it's header file. > > > > Signed-off-by: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net> > > Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> > > Maybe also add "Do not add new entries to these tables" to address > Andi's concern about people updating them.
I agree that those tables in sysctl.h are a right royal pita to maintain. And there sure is a lot of gunk in there which it would be nice to scrap.
So Andi's plan sounds reasonable to me - it'd only take a few lines to implement sysctl(CTL_KERN/KERN_VERSION) as a back-compat thing (and it'll be faster!). And we add a printk so we find out which other sysctls (if any) are being used in the wild.
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