From: Eric W. Biederman The real time clock driver was using the binary number reserved for cdroms in the sysctl binary number interface, which is a no-no. So since the sysctl binary interface is wrong remove it. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Alessandro Zummo Acked-by: Ralf Baechle Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/char/rtc.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/rtc.c~sysctl-remove-sys_sysctl-support-from-drivers-char-rtcc drivers/char/rtc.c --- a/drivers/char/rtc.c~sysctl-remove-sys_sysctl-support-from-drivers-char-rtcc +++ a/drivers/char/rtc.c @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ irqreturn_t rtc_interrupt(int irq, void */ static ctl_table rtc_table[] = { { - .ctl_name = 1, + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, .procname = "max-user-freq", .data = &rtc_max_user_freq, .maxlen = sizeof(int), @@ -294,9 +294,8 @@ static ctl_table rtc_table[] = { static ctl_table rtc_root[] = { { - .ctl_name = 1, + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, .procname = "rtc", - .maxlen = 0, .mode = 0555, .child = rtc_table, }, @@ -307,7 +306,6 @@ static ctl_table dev_root[] = { { .ctl_name = CTL_DEV, .procname = "dev", - .maxlen = 0, .mode = 0555, .child = rtc_root, }, _