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

Cal Peake
2006-10-17T21:59:56Z

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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.

Works for me. If everyone agrees I'll whip up a patch to match Alan's
description and remove the deprecation notice.

thanks,

- C.

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