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Message-Id: <200611100750.10990.ak@suse.de>
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

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