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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:17:40 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.18pre24
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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.

Andrea
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