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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2006-09-27 01:51:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-27 08:26:19 -0700 |
| commit | 35fa2048ab13d1be846be612e395c15c200bd51c (patch) | |
| tree | b839611bfb72dbe264e2d35a638ba559aa464a4e /Documentation | |
| parent | b89a81712f486e4f7a606987413e387605fdeaf4 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-35fa2048ab13d1be846be612e395c15c200bd51c.zip op-kernel-dev-35fa2048ab13d1be846be612e395c15c200bd51c.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 93b10bd..436697c 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> --------------------------- +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> + +--------------------------- + What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) When: November 2005 Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c |
