On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:11:36 +0100
Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ar Maw, 2006-10-17 am 14:17 -0400, ysgrifennodd Cal Peake:
> > My dmesg gets spammed to all hell with these warnings. Can we keep this
> > option easily visible till it gets ripped out Jan of 2007 (see
> > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for reference)?
>
> NAK
>
> The problem is that this option is available at all. Deprecating
> syscalls especially trivial ones is fundamentally wrong. The correct fix
> is to make sysctl always present except as an option for embedded and
> not to deprecate it.
yes, it appears that we screwed that up, but I haven't got around to thinking about
it yet.
It does appear that so many things are using sys_sysctl() that any plan to
remove it completely is over-optimistic.
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