Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423069AbWJRWLw (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:11:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751529AbWJRWLw (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:11:52 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:39583 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423069AbWJRWLv (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:11:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Undeprecate the sysctl system call From: Alan Cox To: Andrew Morton Cc: Cal Peake , Andi Kleen , Randy Dunlap , Jan Beulich , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20061018123115.662ec5c7.akpm@osdl.org> References: <453519EE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <200610181441.51748.ak@suse.de> <1161176382.9363.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200610181508.54237.ak@suse.de> <1161189661.9363.83.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061018123115.662ec5c7.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:13:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1161209637.13350.2.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: 519 Lines: 12 Ar Mer, 2006-10-18 am 12:31 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton: > I agree that those tables in sysctl.h are a right royal pita to maintain. > And there sure is a lot of gunk in there which it would be nice to scrap. I'm arguing that we don't maintain them, we freeze 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/