Eric Lee / smarc-fsl-linux-kernel

15 Feb, 2007

2 commits

  • 0b4d41471   [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl ... Browse Code »

    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
    Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
    Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Corey Minyard
    Cc: Neil Brown
    Cc: "John W. Linville"
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: Jan Kara
    Cc: Trond Myklebust
    Cc: Mark Fasheh
    Cc: David Chinner
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Patrick McHardy
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric W. Biederman
     
  • 39732acd9   [PATCH] sysctl: move utsname sysctls to their own file ... Browse Code »

    This is just a simple cleanup to keep kernel/sysctl.c from getting to crowded
    with special cases, and by keeping all of the utsname logic to together it
    makes the code a little more readable.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Serge E. Hallyn
    Cc: Herbert Poetzl
    Cc: Kirill Korotaev
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric W. Biederman