Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:10:18 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>,
       Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>,
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       coreteam@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] sysctl: Remove broken cdrom binary sysctls
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:00:05 -0600
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> 
> The binary interface for the cdrom sysctls can't possilby work.
> So remove the binary sysctls and reduce cdrom_sysctl_handler
> to it's essentials (to kill the uses of ctl_name).
> 
> Since the last time this patch was posted I radically
> simplified cdrom_sysctl_helper to meet address Alan's objections.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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