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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-11-02 16:07:27 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-11-02 16:07:27 -0700 |
commit | 092f4c56c1927e4b61a41ee8055005f1cb437009 (patch) | |
tree | 616ceb54b7671ccc13922ae9e002b8b972f6e09e /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
parent | 80c2861672bbf000f6af838656959ee937e4ee4d (diff) | |
parent | c1e2ee2dc436574880758b3836fc96935b774c32 (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming - part two)
Says Andrew:
"60 patches. That's good enough for -rc1 I guess. I have quite a lot
of detritus to be rechecked, work through maintainers, etc.
- most of the remains of MM
- rtc
- various misc
- cgroups
- memcg
- cpusets
- procfs
- ipc
- rapidio
- sysctl
- pps
- w1
- drivers/misc
- aio"
* akpm: (60 commits)
memcg: replace ss->id_lock with a rwlock
aio: allocate kiocbs in batches
drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: fix typo in code comment
drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: determine page allocation flag can_sleep outside loop
w1: disable irqs in critical section
drivers/w1/w1_int.c: multiple masters used same init_name
drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: fix deadlock upon insertion and removal
drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: add a nolock function to w1 interface
drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: create central point for calling w1 interface
w1: ds2760 and ds2780, use ida for id and ida_simple_get() to get it
pps gpio client: add missing dependency
pps: new client driver using GPIO
pps: default echo function
include/linux/dma-mapping.h: add dma_zalloc_coherent()
sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n
sysctl: add support for poll()
RapidIO: documentation update
drivers/net/rionet.c: fix ethernet address macros for LE platforms
RapidIO: fix potential null deref in rio_setup_device()
RapidIO: add mport driver for Tsi721 bridge
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 7c799fc5b88e..3d849122b5b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -133,41 +133,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> --------------------------- -What: sys_sysctl -When: September 2010 -Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL -Why: The same information is available in a more convenient from - /proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be - important performance wise. - - Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel - bugs and security issues. - - When I looked several months ago all I could find after - searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and - glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall. - - The man page for sysctl(2) documents it as unusable for user - space programs. - - sysctl(2) is not generally ABI compatible to a 32bit user - space application on a 64bit and a 32bit kernel. - - For the last several months the policy has been no new binary - sysctls and no one has put forward an argument to use them. - - Binary sysctls issues seem to keep happening appearing so - properly deprecating them (with a warning to user space) and a - 2 year grace warning period will mean eventually we can kill - them and end the pain. - - In the mean time individual binary sysctls can be dealt with - in a piecewise fashion. - -Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> - ---------------------------- - What: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj When: August 2012 Why: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's |