From: Eric W. Biederman Because the sunrpc sysctls don't conflict with any other sysctls the setting the insert at head flag to register_sysctl has no semantic meaning. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- net/sunrpc/sysctl.c | 2 +- net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN net/sunrpc/sysctl.c~sysctl-sunrpc-remove-unnecessary-insert_at_head-flag net/sunrpc/sysctl.c --- a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c~sysctl-sunrpc-remove-unnecessary-insert_at_head-flag +++ a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ void rpc_register_sysctl(void) { if (!sunrpc_table_header) { - sunrpc_table_header = register_sysctl_table(sunrpc_table, 1); + sunrpc_table_header = register_sysctl_table(sunrpc_table, 0); #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS if (sunrpc_table[0].de) sunrpc_table[0].de->owner = THIS_MODULE; diff -puN net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c~sysctl-sunrpc-remove-unnecessary-insert_at_head-flag net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c~sysctl-sunrpc-remove-unnecessary-insert_at_head-flag +++ a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c @@ -1629,7 +1629,7 @@ int init_socket_xprt(void) { #ifdef RPC_DEBUG if (!sunrpc_table_header) { - sunrpc_table_header = register_sysctl_table(sunrpc_table, 1); + sunrpc_table_header = register_sysctl_table(sunrpc_table, 0); #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS if (sunrpc_table[0].de) sunrpc_table[0].de->owner = THIS_MODULE; _