Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161228AbWJRQii (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:38:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161231AbWJRQii (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:38:38 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:16859 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161228AbWJRQig (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:38:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Undeprecate the sysctl system call From: Alan Cox To: Cal Peake Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Randy Dunlap , Jan Beulich , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <453519EE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <200610181441.51748.ak@suse.de> <1161176382.9363.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200610181508.54237.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:41:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1161189661.9363.83.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: 924 Lines: 22 Ar Mer, 2006-10-18 am 12:20 -0400, ysgrifennodd Cal Peake: > Until something better comes along this'll get us back to the status quo. > > @Andrew, this patch is a replacement for the one from yesterday. > > From: Cal Peake > > Undeprecate the sysctl system call and default to always include it with > the option for embedded folks to exclude it. Also, remove it's entry from > the feature removal file and fixup the comment in it's header file. > > Signed-off-by: Cal Peake Acked-by: Alan Cox Maybe also add "Do not add new entries to these tables" to address Andi's concern about people updating them. - 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/