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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:26:43 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.18pre24
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:17:40PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:01:59PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > As Dave Miller pointed out, DEV_MAC_HID sysctl conflicts with the RAID patches
> 
> That's right but OTOH I'd simply declare the sysctl-by-number interface dead
> for new introduced sysctl. We need to preserve backwards compatibility of
> course but that's not a problem. I'd preferred if we killed it completly (just
> providing backwards compatibility) during the 2.4.x cycle. Only reliable
> way to use new sysctl is sysctl-by-name IMHO.

Right.  But the problem here was a new, unused sysctl-by-number, conflicted
with an old-but-not-integrated sysctl-by-number that is used. :)  The only
reason I made the number match the one in 2.4 was because a) i figured it's
not going to conflict. :) and b) incase something does come along and use it.

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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