Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed.

["Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:39:47 -0600 Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
>  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 <khali@linux-fr.org>
>  
>  ---------------------------
> +
> +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 <ebiederm@xmission.com>


aha, patch 1/2 and patch 2/2 would have helped that.  :)

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~Randy
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