From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:05:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:12675 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S28580835AbXAPQmh (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:42:37 +0000 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-2) with ESMTP id l0GGfdHo001093; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:41:39 -0700 Received: (from eric@localhost) by ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l0GGfd41001092; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:41:39 -0700 From: "Eric W. Biederman" To: " Cc: , , , xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, minyard@acm.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux390@de.ibm.com, linux-390@vm.marist.edu, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, linuxsh-shmedia-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, , vojtech@suse.cz, clemens@ladisch.de, a.zummo@towertech.it, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-parport@lists.infradead.org, andrea@suse.de, tim@cyberelk.net, philb@gnu.org, aharkes@cs.cmu.edu, coda@cs.cmu.edu, codalist@TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, aia21@cantab.net, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, mark.fasheh@oracle.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com, "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: [PATCH 54/59] sysctl: Remove support for directory strategy routines. Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:39:59 -0700 Message-Id: <11689656993630-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.0.rc1.gb60d In-Reply-To: References: Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 13666 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ebiederm@xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips From: Eric W. Biederman - unquoted parse_table has support for calling a strategy routine when descending into a directory. To date no one has used this functionality and the /proc/sys interface has no analog to it. So no one is using this functionality kill it and make the binary sysctl code easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- kernel/sysctl.c | 8 -------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index e655b11..2c3703d 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1171,14 +1171,6 @@ repeat: if (table->child) { if (ctl_perm(table, 001)) return -EPERM; - if (table->strategy) { - error = table->strategy( - table, name, nlen, - oldval, oldlenp, - newval, newlen); - if (error) - return error; - } name++; nlen--; table = table->child; -- 1.4.4.1.g278f From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:12675 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S28580835AbXAPQmh (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:42:37 +0000 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: [PATCH 54/59] sysctl: Remove support for directory strategy routines. Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:39:59 -0700 Message-ID: <11689656993630-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> In-Reply-To: References: Return-Path: Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org To: " Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, minyard@acm.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux390@de.ibm.com, linux-390@vm.marist.edu, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, linuxsh-shmedia-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, ak@suse.de, vojtech@suse.cz, clemens@ladisch.de, a.zummo@towertech.it, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-parport@lists.infradead.org, andrea@suse.de, tim@cyberelk.net, philb@gnu.org, aharkes@cs.cmu.edu, coda@cs.cmu.edu, codalist@TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, aia21@cantab.net, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, mark.fasheh@oracle.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com, "Eric W. Biederman" Message-ID: <20070116163959.2XUWd5StqdVr5N9m-XFHyadWrklz9MD6-I6fUEmrRcI@z> From: Eric W. Biederman - unquoted parse_table has support for calling a strategy routine when descending into a directory. To date no one has used this functionality and the /proc/sys interface has no analog to it. So no one is using this functionality kill it and make the binary sysctl code easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- kernel/sysctl.c | 8 -------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index e655b11..2c3703d 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1171,14 +1171,6 @@ repeat: if (table->child) { if (ctl_perm(table, 001)) return -EPERM; - if (table->strategy) { - error = table->strategy( - table, name, nlen, - oldval, oldlenp, - newval, newlen); - if (error) - return error; - } name++; nlen--; table = table->child; -- 1.4.4.1.g278f