Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:59:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore sysctl syscall option for non-embedded users
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Alan Cox wrote:

> Ar Maw, 2006-10-17 am 14:17 -0400, ysgrifennodd Cal Peake:
> > My dmesg gets spammed to all hell with these warnings. Can we keep this 
> > option easily visible till it gets ripped out Jan of 2007 (see 
> > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for reference)?
> 
> NAK
> 
> The problem is that this option is available at all. Deprecating
> syscalls especially trivial ones is fundamentally wrong. The correct fix
> is to make sysctl always present except as an option for embedded and
> not to deprecate it.

Works for me. If everyone agrees I'll whip up a patch to match Alan's 
description and remove the deprecation notice.

thanks,

  - C.

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