From: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl.h: Comment out unused constants
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:14:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B207A4.7030606@student.ltu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B1CE1D.9040309@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Richard Knutsson wrote:
>> Comment out unused constants in include/linux/sysctl.h.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
>
> NAK as all hell.
>
> This file exports an interface to userspace, and thus should be
> maintained indefinitely.
Oh, then I misunderstood Eric W. Bieders' message about comment out
unused numbers.
But just of interest; what happens when userspace use a number not used
in the kernel (except in sysctl.h)? Is it just a no-op?
Richard Knutsson
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-20 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-20 0:35 [PATCH] sysctl.h: Comment out unused constants Richard Knutsson
2007-01-20 8:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-20 12:14 ` Richard Knutsson [this message]
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