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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed.
    On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:39:47 -0600 Eric W. Biederman wrote:

    >
    > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    > ---
    > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 +++++++++++
    > 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
    >
    > diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
    > index e978943..bef1bf0 100644
    > --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
    > +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
    > @@ -250,3 +250,14 @@ Why: These drivers never compiled since
    > Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
    >
    > ---------------------------
    > +
    > +What: sys_sysctl
    > +When: January 2007
    > +Why: The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the
    > + interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be
    > + any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl. The additional
    > + maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets
    > + in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface.
    > +
    > +Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>


    aha, patch 1/2 and patch 2/2 would have helped that. :)

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