linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/23] sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support

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Message-ID: <20091109141034.GA12637@linux-mips.org>
Date:	Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:10:34 +0100
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/23] sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl
	support

On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 04:22:02AM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> 
> Now that sys_sysctl is a generic wrapper around /proc/sys  .ctl_name
> and .strategy members of sysctl tables are dead code.  Remove them.
> 
> The deleted strategy routines here surprise me.  ctl_name was
> CTL_UNNUMBERED so they would not have been called at all.
> 
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>

  Ralf
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