From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed.
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:39:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1psgdkrt8.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 +++++++++++
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index e978943..bef1bf0 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -250,3 +250,14 @@ Why: These drivers never compiled since
Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
---------------------------
+
+What: sys_sysctl
+When: January 2007
+Why: The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the
+ interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be
+ any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl. The additional
+ maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets
+ in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface.
+
+Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
+
--
1.4.1.gac83a
next reply other threads:[~2006-07-10 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-10 22:39 Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2006-07-10 22:50 ` [PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-11 4:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-11 7:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-12 16:25 ` [PATCH] Use uname not sysctl to get the kernel revision Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-12 16:50 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-12 17:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-12 23:24 ` Theodore Tso
2006-07-12 23:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-13 0:12 ` Theodore Tso
2006-07-13 2:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 12:15 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-12 23:44 ` Steve Munroe
2006-07-14 18:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-07-14 19:09 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-13 0:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-12 18:44 ` Roland McGrath
2006-07-12 19:33 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-12 19:53 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-07-12 20:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-12 21:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-12 21:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-12 21:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-12 22:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-12 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-12 22:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-12 22:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-12 23:07 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-12 23:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-13 11:15 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-14 18:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-07-14 19:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-12 21:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-12 21:33 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-07-13 5:17 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-13 6:27 ` Ian Wienand
2006-07-13 14:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 15:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
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