Eric W. Biederman 13bb7e37e5 [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl ... The basic issue is that despite have been deprecated and warned about as a very bad thing in the man pages since its inception there are a few real users of sys_sysctl. It was my assumption that because sysctl had been deprecated for all of 2.6 there would be no user space users by this point, so I initially gave sys_sysctl a very short deprecation period. Now that I know there are a few real users the only sane way to proceed with deprecation is to push the time limit out to a year or two work and work with distributions that have big testing pools like fedora core to find these last remaining users. Which means that the sys_sysctl interface needs to be maintained in the meantime. Since I have provided a technical measure that allows us to add new sysctl entries without reserving more binary numbers I believe that is enough to fix the sys_sysctl binary interface maintenance problems, because there is no longer a need to change the binary interface at all. Since the sys_sysctl implementation needs to stay around for a while and the worst of the maintenance issues that caused us to occasionally break the ABI have been addressed I don't see any advantage in continuing with the removal of sys_sysctl. So instead of merely increasing the deprecation period this patch removes the deprecation of sys_sysctl and modifies the kernel to compile the code in by default. With committing to maintain sys_sysctl we get all of the advantages of a fast interface for anything that needs it. Currently sys_sysctl is about 5x faster than /proc/sys, for the same string data. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>		2006-11-08 18:29:24 -08:00
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calibrate.c	[PATCH] Platform SMIs and their interferance with tsc based delay calibration	2005-06-23 09:45:08 -07:00
do_mounts.c	[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]	2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
do_mounts.h	Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h>	2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
do_mounts_initrd.c	[PATCH] introduce kernel_execve	2006-10-02 07:57:23 -07:00
do_mounts_md.c	[PATCH] md: remove MAX_MD_DEVS which is an arbitrary limit	2006-10-03 08:04:18 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c	[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code	2006-06-26 12:25:05 -07:00
initramfs.c	[PATCH] initramfs overwrite fix	2006-06-26 09:58:40 -07:00
Kconfig	[PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl	2006-11-08 18:29:24 -08:00
main.c	[PATCH] x86-64: Speed up dwarf2 unwinder	2006-10-21 18:37:01 +02:00
Makefile	[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code	2006-06-26 12:25:05 -07:00
version.c	[PATCH] namespaces: utsname: implement utsname namespaces	2006-10-02 07:57:21 -07:00