The patch titled sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is sysctl-document-that-sys_sysctl-will-be-removed.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~sysctl-document-that-sys_sysctl-will-be-removed Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~sysctl-document-that-sys_sysctl-will-be-removed +++ a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -258,3 +258,14 @@ Why: These drivers never compiled since Who: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --------------------------- + +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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> + _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are i386-kexec-allow-the-kexec-on-panic-support-to-compile-on-voyager.patch msi-only-keep-one-msi_desc-in-each-slab-entry.patch msi-use-kmem_cache_zalloc.patch sysctl-allow-proc-sys-without-sys_sysctl.patch sysctl-scream-if-someone-uses-sys_sysctl.patch sysctl-document-that-sys_sysctl-will-be-removed.patch proc-sysctl-add-_proc_do_string-helper.patch namespaces-add-nsproxy.patch namespaces-add-nsproxy-dont-include-compileh.patch namespaces-incorporate-fs-namespace-into-nsproxy.patch namespaces-utsname-introduce-temporary-helpers.patch namespaces-utsname-switch-to-using-uts-namespaces.patch namespaces-utsname-use-init_utsname-when-appropriate.patch namespaces-utsname-implement-utsname-namespaces.patch namespaces-utsname-sysctl-hack.patch namespaces-utsname-remove-system_utsname.patch namespaces-utsname-implement-clone_newuts-flag.patch uts-copy-nsproxy-only-when-needed.patch ipc-namespace-core.patch ipc-namespace-utils.patch genirq-irq-convert-the-move_irq-flag-from-a-32bit-word-to-a-single-bit.patch genirq-irq-add-moved_masked_irq.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-reenable-migrating-irqs-to-other-cpus.patch genirq-msi-simplify-msi-enable-and-disable.patch genirq-msi-make-the-msi-boolean-tests-return-either-0-or-1.patch genirq-msi-implement-helper-functions-read_msi_msg-and-write_msi_msg.patch genirq-msi-refactor-the-msi_ops.patch genirq-msi-simplify-the-msi-irq-limit-policy.patch genirq-irq-add-a-dynamic-irq-creation-api.patch genirq-ia64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-i386-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-msi-make-the-msi-code-irq-based-and-not-vector-based.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch genirq-i386-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch genirq-msi-only-build-msi-apicc-on-ia64.patch genirq-msi-only-build-msi-apicc-on-ia64-fix.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch genirq-i386-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch genirq-irq-remove-msi-hacks.patch genirq-irq-generalize-the-check-for-hardirq_bits.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-the-external-irq-handlers-report-their-vector-not-the-irq-number.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-vector_irq-per-cpu.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-gsi_irq_sharing.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-irq-compression.patch add-hypertransport-capability-defines.patch add-hypertransport-capability-defines-fix.patch initial-generic-hypertransport-interrupt-support.patch pidhash-temporary-debug-checks.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html