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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:50:10 +0100 From: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...l.org>, "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, alan@...hat.com, "Russell King" <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>, "Jakub Jelinek" <jakub@...hat.com>, "Mike Galbraith" <efault@....de>, "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@...il.com>, "Bill Nottingham" <notting@...hat.com>, "Marco Roeland" <marco.roeland@...all.nl>, "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@....net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl (take 2) On Wednesday 08 November 2006 20:58, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The basic issue is that despite have been ``deprecated'' and > warned about as a very bad thing in the man pages since it's > inception there are a few real users of sys_sysctl. But they only seem to use a small number of actually used with sysctl(2) sysctls. I still think just maintaining a conversion table for those is the right thing to do. The important part really is to get rid of the crufty old infrastructure internally. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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