The patch titled sysctl: remove support for directory strategy routines has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was sysctl-remove-support-for-directory-strategy-routines.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sysctl: remove support for directory strategy routines From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> parse_table has support for calling a strategy routine when descending into a directory. To date no one has used this functionality and the /proc/sys interface has no analog to it. So no one is using this functionality kill it and make the binary sysctl code easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sysctl.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-remove-support-for-directory-strategy-routines kernel/sysctl.c --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-remove-support-for-directory-strategy-routines +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1175,14 +1175,6 @@ repeat: if (table->child) { if (ctl_perm(table, 001)) return -EPERM; - if (table->strategy) { - error = table->strategy( - table, name, nlen, - oldval, oldlenp, - newval, newlen); - if (error) - return error; - } name++; nlen--; table = table->child; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch powerpc-rtas-msi-support.patch fix-i-oat-for-kexec.patch git-v9fs.patch x86_64-irq-simplfy-__assign_irq_vector.patch x86_64-irq-handle-irqs-pending-in-irr-during-irq-migration.patch procfs-fix-race-between-proc_readdir-and-remove_proc_entry.patch procfs-fix-race-between-proc_readdir-and-remove_proc_entry-fix.patch clone-flag-clone_parent_tidptr-leaves-invalid-results-in-memory.patch fix-rmmod-read-write-races-in-proc-entries.patch fix-rmmod-read-write-races-in-proc-entries-fix.patch allow-access-to-proc-pid-fd-after-setuid.patch allow-access-to-proc-pid-fd-after-setuid-fix.patch allow-access-to-proc-pid-fd-after-setuid-update.patch allow-access-to-proc-pid-fd-after-setuid-update-2.patch shm-make-sysv-ipc-shared-memory-use-stacked-files.patch i386-apic-clean-up-the-apic-code.patch i386-rework-local-apic-timer-calibration.patch i386-prepare-nmi-watchdog-for-dynticks.patch edac-k8-driver-coding-tidy.patch sched2-sched-domain-sysctl-use-ctl_unnumbered.patch mm-implement-swap-prefetching-use-ctl_unnumbered.patch readahead-sysctl-parameters-use-ctl_unnumbered.patch sysctl-remove-insert_at_head-from-register_sysctl-fix.patch vdso-print-fatal-signals-use-ctl_unnumbered.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