From: Eric W. Biederman In the binary sysctl interface the hpet driver was claiming to be the cdrom driver. This is a no-no so remove support for the binary interface. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/char/hpet.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/hpet.c~sysctl-remove-sys_sysctl-support-from-the-hpet-timer-driver drivers/char/hpet.c --- a/drivers/char/hpet.c~sysctl-remove-sys_sysctl-support-from-the-hpet-timer-driver +++ a/drivers/char/hpet.c @@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ int hpet_control(struct hpet_task *tp, u static ctl_table hpet_table[] = { { - .ctl_name = 1, + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, .procname = "max-user-freq", .data = &hpet_max_freq, .maxlen = sizeof(int), @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ static ctl_table hpet_table[] = { static ctl_table hpet_root[] = { { - .ctl_name = 1, + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, .procname = "hpet", .maxlen = 0, .mode = 0555, _