Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl (take 2)

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 20:58, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> The basic issue is that despite have been ``deprecated'' and
> warned about as a very bad thing in the man pages since it's
> inception there are a few real users of sys_sysctl. 

But they only seem to use a small number of actually used with
sysctl(2) sysctls.
I still think just maintaining a conversion table for 
those is the right thing to do.

The important part really is to get rid of the crufty 
old infrastructure internally.

-Andi

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