Re: [PATCH] Restore sysctl syscall option for non-embedded users

Alan Cox
2006-10-17T21:47:42Z

Ar Maw, 2006-10-17 am 14:17 -0400, ysgrifennodd Cal Peake:
> My dmesg gets spammed to all hell with these warnings. Can we keep this
> option easily visible till it gets ripped out Jan of 2007 (see
> Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for reference)?

NAK

The problem is that this option is available at all. Deprecating
syscalls especially trivial ones is fundamentally wrong. The correct fix
is to make sysctl always present except as an option for embedded and
not to deprecate it.