From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com [166.70.28.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F362DDDF5 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:25:53 +1100 (EST) From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH] sysctl: Kill binary sysctl KERN_PPC_L2CR References: <20080123140352.e19900d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:18:34 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20080123140352.e19900d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:03:52 -0800") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > From: Stefan Roese > Subject: ppc: 4xx: sysctl table check failed: /kernel/l2cr .1.31 Missing strategy > > I'm seeing this error message when booting an recent arch/ppc kernel on > 4xx platforms (tested on Ocotea and other 4xx platforms). Booting NFS > rootfs still works fine, but this message kind of makes me "nervous". > This is not seen on 4xx arch/powerpc platforms. Here the bootlog: Because the data field was never filled and a binary sysctl handler was never written this sysctl has never been usable through the sys_sysctl interface. So just remove the binary sysctl number. Making the kernel sanity checks happy. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_htab.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_htab.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_htab.c index aa07b63..9ed36dd 100644 --- a/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_htab.c +++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_htab.c @@ -436,7 +436,6 @@ int proc_dol2crvec(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, */ static ctl_table htab_ctl_table[]={ { - .ctl_name = KERN_PPC_L2CR, .procname = "l2cr", .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &proc_dol2crvec, -- 1.5.3.rc6.17.g1911