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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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~Randy
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