Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751147AbWJDVdU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:33:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751151AbWJDVdU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:33:20 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:48778 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751147AbWJDVdT (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:33:19 -0400 Subject: Re: removed sysctl system call - documentation and timeline From: Alan Cox To: Jesper Juhl Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <9a8748490610041335t519678d1u61f5775293c061e4@mail.gmail.com> References: <9a8748490610041335t519678d1u61f5775293c061e4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:58:58 +0100 Message-Id: <1159999139.25772.118.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 17 Ar Mer, 2006-10-04 am 22:35 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jesper Juhl: > I'm not, as such, opposed to removing sysctl (and yes, I know what it > is and what it does). What I am a little opposed to is that it is > being removed on such short notice (unless I missed the memo) and that > it is hidden inside EMBEDDED. It was deprecated but 6 months for a syscall is way too short and it should have been (and still should - send Linus patches and I'm sure lots of people will ack them) under EMBEDDED Alan - 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/