linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/10] sysctl: Remove the binary interface for aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video

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Date:	Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:03:23 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>
Subject: [PATCH 10/10] sysctl: Remove the binary interface for aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video_flags

aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video_flags are unsigned long values
which sysctl does not handle properly with a 64bit kernel
and a 32bit user space.

Since no one is likely to be using the binary sysctl values
and the ascii interface still works, this patch just removes
support for the binary sysctl interface from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 kernel/sysctl.c |    3 ---
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index ccae8da..03759ab 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -688,7 +688,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 #endif
 #if	defined(CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP) && defined(CONFIG_X86)
 	{
-		.ctl_name	= KERN_ACPI_VIDEO_FLAGS,
 		.procname	= "acpi_video_flags",
 		.data		= &acpi_realmode_flags,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof (unsigned long),
@@ -1148,7 +1147,6 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
 		.extra2		= &two,
 	},
 	{
-		.ctl_name	= FS_AIO_NR,
 		.procname	= "aio-nr",
 		.data		= &aio_nr,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(aio_nr),
@@ -1156,7 +1154,6 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
 		.proc_handler	= &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
 	},
 	{
-		.ctl_name	= FS_AIO_MAX_NR,
 		.procname	= "aio-max-nr",
 		.data		= &aio_max_nr,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(aio_max_nr),
-- 
1.5.1.1.181.g2de0

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