Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:14:56 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
       akpm@osdl.org, paulus@samba.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
       ralf@linux-mips.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Problems disabling SYSCTL
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:00:53PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> But seriously I wouldn't bother - the syscall interface is deprecated anyways
> and has been for a long time. The only sysctl that needs to be handled
> is (CTL_KERN,KERN_VERSION) [used by glibc], the others are not needed
> and I hoep to eventually remove them even natively.
> 
> -Andi
> 
> P.S.: Andrew I just discovered you removed the printk code for this.
> That's not good, how are users supposed to know it's deprecated?

How are kernel hackers to know it's been deprecated?  ;-)

Index: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -p -r1.2 feature-removal-schedule.txt
--- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt  12 Jan 2005 20:14:53 -0000     1.2
+++ Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt  24 Jan 2005 16:13:54 -0000
@@ -32,3 +32,11 @@ Why: /proc/sys/cpu/* has been deprecated
        /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu%n/cpufreq/.
 Who:   Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
 
+---------------------------
+
+What:  The sysctl() syscall
+When:  January 2006
+Files: kernel/sysctl.c
+Why:   Dunno.
+Who:   Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
+

Want to finish it off and send it to Andrew?  ;-)

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