From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] mark /proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level to be removed Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:35:30 -0500 Message-ID: <1206023730.3038.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1206018190-5888-1-git-send-email-crquan@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:35443 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756626AbYCTOfe (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:35:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1206018190-5888-1-git-send-email-crquan@gmail.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Denis Cheng Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 21:03 +0800, Denis Cheng wrote: > Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng > --- > Since scsi_logging_level module_param can be read/written while system > running, the demand for /proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level has been no longer > mandotory. > > But someone might have already set this value in /etc/sysctl.conf, so > mark it to be removed in one year (until March 2009). > > One year might be not enough or too long, this period should also be discussed. I don't think there's really much point to doing this. We're already tied to the SYS_SYSCTL deprecation Eric Biderman is hoping to do for this; it's much better if the whole lot goes at once rather than piecemeal (particularly if sysctl stays around longer than anticipated). James