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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:33:47 -0700 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Cc: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, xfs-masters@....sgi.com, xfs@....sgi.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@...elEye.com, minyard@....org, openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org, schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, linux390@...ibm.com, linux-390@...marist.edu, paulus@...ba.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, lethal@...ux-sh.org, lethal@...ux-sh.org, linuxsh-shmedia-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net, <ak@...e.de>, vojtech@...e.cz, clemens@...isch.de, a.zummo@...ertech.it, rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, linux-parport@...ts.infradead.org, andrea@...e.de, tim@...erelk.net, philb@....org, aharkes@...cmu.edu, coda@...cmu.edu, codalist@...EMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, aia21@...tab.net, linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net, mark.fasheh@...cle.com, kurt.hackel@...cle.com Subject: [PATCH 0/59] Cleanup sysctl There has not been much maintenance on sysctl in years, and as a result is there is a lot to do to allow future interesting work to happen, and being ambitious I'm trying to do it all at once :) The patches in this series fall into several general categories. - Removal of useless attempts to override the standard sysctls - Registers of sysctl numbers in sysctl.h so someone else does not use the magic number and conflict. - C99 conversions so it becomes possible to change the layout of struct ctl_table without breaking everything. - Removal of useless claims of module ownership, in the proc dir entries - Removal of sys_sysctl support where people had used conflicting sysctl numbers. Trying to break glibc or other applications by changing the ABI is not cool. 9 instances of this in the kernel seems a little extreme. - General enhancements when I got the junk I could see out. Odds are I missed something, most of the cleanups are simply a result of me working on the sysctl core and glancing at the users and going: What? Eric - 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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