From: Eric W. Biederman Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:51:05 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed X-Git-Tag: MMI-PSA29.97-13-9~47278 X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35fa2048ab13d1be846be612e395c15c200bd51c;p=GitHub%2FMotorolaMobilityLLC%2Fkernel-slsi.git [PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 93b10bd784ed..436697cb9388 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --------------------------- +What: sys_sysctl +When: January 2007 +Why: The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the + interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be + any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl. The additional + maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets + in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface. + +Who: Eric Biederman + +--------------------------- + What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) When: November 2005 Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c