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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-08 07:38:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-08 07:38:50 -0800 |
| commit | 1557d33007f63dd96e5d15f33af389378e5f2e54 (patch) | |
| tree | 06d05722b2ba5d2a67532f779fa8a88efe3c88f1 /Documentation | |
| parent | 6ec22f9b037fc0c2e00ddb7023fad279c365324d (diff) | |
| parent | c656ae95d1c5c8ed5763356263ace2d03087efec (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits)
security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl.
security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount.
sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED
sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions.
sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support
sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name
sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support
sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support
sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 23003a8ea3e7..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ - -Except for a few extremely rare exceptions user space applications do not use -the binary sysctl interface. Instead everyone uses /proc/sys/... with -readable ascii names. - -Recently the kernel has started supporting setting the binary sysctl value to -CTL_UNNUMBERED so we no longer need to assign a binary sysctl path to allow -sysctls to show up in /proc/sys. - -Assigning binary sysctl numbers is an endless source of conflicts in sysctl.h, -breaking of the user space ABI (because of those conflicts), and maintenance -problems. A complete pass through all of the sysctl users revealed multiple -instances where the sysctl binary interface was broken and had gone undetected -for years. - -So please do not add new binary sysctl numbers. They are unneeded and -problematic. - -If you really need a new binary sysctl number please first merge your sysctl -into the kernel and then as a separate patch allocate a binary sysctl number. - -(ebiederm@xmission.com, June 2007) |