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authorWANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>2011-11-02 13:39:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 16:07:02 -0700
commitc736de60aed869df8a9aba512cdaf89e32545b00 (patch)
tree09397ad20f12fd5d97b1e4e6b46df617b0971982 /init
parentf1ecf06854a66ee663f4d4cf029c78cd62a15e04 (diff)
downloadlinux-c736de60aed869df8a9aba512cdaf89e32545b00.tar.gz
sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n
When I tried to send a patch to remove it, Andi told me we still need to
keep compabitlies for old libc, so we can't remove this completely.  Then
just make it default to n and remove the doc from
feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 31ba0fd0f36b..43298f9810fb 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ config UID16
 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
 	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
 	depends on PROC_SYSCTL
-	default y
+	default n
 	select SYSCTL
 	---help---
 	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
 	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
 	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
 
-	  If unsure say Y here.
+	  If unsure say N here.
 
 config KALLSYMS
 	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT