From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263862AbUCZAcr (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:32:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263859AbUCZAcE (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:32:04 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:11478 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263865AbUCZANO (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:13:14 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:15:23 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Matt Mackall Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/22] /dev/random: remove broken resizing sysctl Message-Id: <20040325161523.3efbb4b7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4.524465763@selenic.com> References: <3.524465763@selenic.com> <4.524465763@selenic.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matt Mackall wrote: > > /dev/random remove broken resizing sysctl This could break things. Shouldn't we leave the /proc entry there and print a friendly message in the sysctl handler?