linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/5] Documentation: update epoll sysctl text

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Date:	Mon, 23 May 2011 11:57:33 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] Documentation: update epoll sysctl text

From: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>

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>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
---
 Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt |    7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.39-git6.orig/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
+++ linux-2.6.39-git6/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
 ----------------
 
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