Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030195AbWJRM5f (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:57:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030258AbWJRM5f (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:57:35 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:42981 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030195AbWJRM5e (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:57:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Undeprecate the sysctl system call From: Alan Cox To: Andi Kleen Cc: Cal Peake , Andrew Morton , Randy Dunlap , Jan Beulich , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200610181441.51748.ak@suse.de> References: <453519EE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <1161173741.9363.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200610181441.51748.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:59:42 +0100 Message-Id: <1161176382.9363.35.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: 566 Lines: 13 Ar Mer, 2006-10-18 am 14:41 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen: > It's less work long term, mostly because all the rejects for sysctl.h will > go away. And it's more compatible than just removing sysctl(2) completely. What rejects for sysctl.h, nobody is going to add new entries to sysctl(2) so there will be no rejects. - 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/