From: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~sysctl-document-that-sys_sysctl-will-be-removed Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~sysctl-document-that-sys_sysctl-will-be-removed +++ a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -275,3 +275,14 @@ Why: The stacking of class devices makes Who: Kay Sievers --------------------------- + +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 + _