From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965300AbWGJWkf (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:40:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965299AbWGJWke (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:40:34 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:39654 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965301AbWGJWkd (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:40:33 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Andrew Morton Cc: Subject: [PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed. Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:39:47 -0600 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 + -- 1.4.1.gac83a