linux-kernel - [PATCH] Documentation: epoll: remove entry about max_user

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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:15:00 +0200
From:	Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: epoll: remove entry about max_user_instances

max_user_instances was removed in this commit:

   commit 9df04e1f25effde823a600e755b51475d438f56b
   Author: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
   Date:   Thu Jan 29 14:25:26 2009 -0800

    epoll: drop max_user_instances and rely only on max_user_watches

but the documentation entry was not removed.

Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt |    7 -------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
index 4af0614..88fd7f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
@@ -231,13 +231,6 @@ its creation).
 
 This directory contains configuration options for the epoll(7) interface.
 
-max_user_instances
-------------------
-
-This is the maximum number of epoll file descriptors that a single user can
-have open at a given time. The default value is 128, and should be enough
-for normal users.
-
 max_user_watches
 ----------------
 
-- 
1.7.5.rc0

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