From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965299AbWGJWsE (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:48:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965305AbWGJWsE (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:48:04 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:21151 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965303AbWGJWsD (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:48:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:50:51 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed. Message-Id: <20060710155051.326e49da.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.8.3; x86_64-unknown-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 On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:39:47 -0600 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman > --- > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 +++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > index e978943..bef1bf0 100644 > --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > @@ -250,3 +250,14 @@ Why: These drivers never compiled since > Who: Jean Delvare > > --------------------------- > + > +What: sys_sysctl > +When: January 2007 > +Why: The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the > + interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be > + any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl. The additional > + maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets > + in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface. > + > +Who: Eric Biederman aha, patch 1/2 and patch 2/2 would have helped that. :) --- ~Randy