Commit 35fa2048 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent b89a8171
......@@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
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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 <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
When: November 2005
Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c
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