sysctl: remove the binary interface for aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video_flags
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:05:29 +0000 (03:05 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:37:23 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video_flags are unsigned long values which sysctl
does not handle properly with a 64bit kernel and a 32bit user space.

Since no one is likely to be using the binary sysctl values and the ascii
interface still works, this patch just removes support for the binary sysctl
interface from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/sysctl.c

index 8e8f3f4cf14b699126bc7174039c6d746d31f3c1..bed6cdb3e47aab134957f0f1d49930f145c04d7e 100644 (file)
@@ -703,7 +703,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 #endif
 #if    defined(CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP) && defined(CONFIG_X86)
        {
-               .ctl_name       = KERN_ACPI_VIDEO_FLAGS,
                .procname       = "acpi_video_flags",
                .data           = &acpi_realmode_flags,
                .maxlen         = sizeof (unsigned long),
@@ -1185,7 +1184,6 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
                .extra2         = &two,
        },
        {
-               .ctl_name       = FS_AIO_NR,
                .procname       = "aio-nr",
                .data           = &aio_nr,
                .maxlen         = sizeof(aio_nr),
@@ -1193,7 +1191,6 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
                .proc_handler   = &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
        },
        {
-               .ctl_name       = FS_AIO_MAX_NR,
                .procname       = "aio-max-nr",
                .data           = &aio_max_nr,
                .maxlen         = sizeof(aio_max_nr),