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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2007-02-14 00:34:09 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-14 08:09:59 -0800 |
| commit | 0b4d414714f0d2f922d39424b0c5c82ad900a381 (patch) | |
| tree | 5079ec59a5622c9cacfe0fce484ba2c4626c406f /arch/ia64 | |
| parent | ae836810263509ff7a3c2c021754ce6f66b3fab6 (diff) | |
[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.
I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.
So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c | 2 |
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c index 37bb16f07fc3..5cdd2f5fa064 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ machine_crash_setup(void) if((ret = register_die_notifier(&kdump_init_notifier_nb)) != 0) return ret; #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL - register_sysctl_table(sys_table, 0); + register_sysctl_table(sys_table); #endif return 0; } diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c index d2f299d98977..2ecb20b551e1 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c @@ -6726,7 +6726,7 @@ pfm_init(void) /* * create /proc/sys/kernel/perfmon (for debugging purposes) */ - pfm_sysctl_header = register_sysctl_table(pfm_sysctl_root, 0); + pfm_sysctl_header = register_sysctl_table(pfm_sysctl_root); /* * initialize all our spinlocks diff --git a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c index e04f7b5f2aab..68355ef6f841 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c +++ b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c @@ -1241,7 +1241,7 @@ xpc_init(void) snprintf(xpc_part->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "part"); snprintf(xpc_chan->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "chan"); - xpc_sysctl = register_sysctl_table(xpc_sys_dir, 0); + xpc_sysctl = register_sysctl_table(xpc_sys_dir); /* * The first few fields of each entry of xpc_partitions[] need to |