Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965250AbXATMMb (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:12:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965231AbXATMMb (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:12:31 -0500 Received: from gepetto.dc.ltu.se ([130.240.42.40]:60623 "EHLO gepetto.dc.ltu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965250AbXATMMa (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:12:30 -0500 Message-ID: <45B207A4.7030606@student.ltu.se> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:14:28 +0100 From: Richard Knutsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl.h: Comment out unused constants References: <45B163E4.1040507@student.ltu.se> <45B1CE1D.9040309@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <45B1CE1D.9040309@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 23 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Richard Knutsson wrote: >> Comment out unused constants in include/linux/sysctl.h. >> >> Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson > > NAK as all hell. > > This file exports an interface to userspace, and thus should be > maintained indefinitely. Oh, then I misunderstood Eric W. Bieders' message about comment out unused numbers. But just of interest; what happens when userspace use a number not used in the kernel (except in sysctl.h)? Is it just a no-op? Richard Knutsson - 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/