From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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> References: Return-path: Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:46004 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751355AbXAPQth (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:49:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.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 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