From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263923AbUCZDxg (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:53:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263928AbUCZDxg (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:53:36 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([209.173.204.2]:1709 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263923AbUCZDxe (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:53:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:53:31 -0600 From: Matt Mackall To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/22] /dev/random: remove broken resizing sysctl Message-ID: <20040326035331.GD8366@waste.org> References: <3.524465763@selenic.com> <4.524465763@selenic.com> <20040325161523.3efbb4b7.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040325161523.3efbb4b7.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 04:15:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > /dev/random remove broken resizing sysctl > > This could break things. Shouldn't we leave the /proc entry there > and print a friendly message in the sysctl handler? I could do that, yes. I would be really surprised if there were any users, however. -- Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting