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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2006-09-27 01:51:05 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-27 08:26:19 -0700
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[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>
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@@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ Who:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
 
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+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