Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269766AbTGKCUq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:20:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269767AbTGKCUq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:20:46 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:29360 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269766AbTGKCUo (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:20:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:35:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Deprecate sysctl(2), add sysctl_name In-Reply-To: <20030711014154.GA15238@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 869 Lines: 22 On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Andi Kleen wrote: > > This patch deprecates sysctl(2) by adding a printk to it. There is one > important user of it - glibc checks kernel.version in the startup code - > which is still handled without message. This needs to be still handled, > but the hope is that there are no other users of the numerical interface. I'd prefer to first _only_ deprecate it, and if somebody really really decides that they want another interface than /proc too, we can re-visit the thing then. I doubt there is any real reason to not just use the /proc interface, and I dislike pre-emptive engineering. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/