Re: [PATCH] Restore sysctl syscall option for non-embedded users

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:11:36 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ar Maw, 2006-10-17 am 14:17 -0400, ysgrifennodd Cal Peake:
> > My dmesg gets spammed to all hell with these warnings. Can we keep this 
> > option easily visible till it gets ripped out Jan of 2007 (see 
> > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for reference)?
> 
> NAK
> 
> The problem is that this option is available at all. Deprecating
> syscalls especially trivial ones is fundamentally wrong. The correct fix
> is to make sysctl always present except as an option for embedded and
> not to deprecate it.

yes, it appears that we screwed that up, but I haven't got around to thinking about
it yet.

It does appear that so many things are using sys_sysctl() that any plan to
remove it completely is over-optimistic.

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