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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-08 07:38:50 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-08 07:38:50 -0800
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits) security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl. security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount. sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler. sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions. sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic ...
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-
-Except for a few extremely rare exceptions user space applications do not use
-the binary sysctl interface. Instead everyone uses /proc/sys/... with
-readable ascii names.
-
-Recently the kernel has started supporting setting the binary sysctl value to
-CTL_UNNUMBERED so we no longer need to assign a binary sysctl path to allow
-sysctls to show up in /proc/sys.
-
-Assigning binary sysctl numbers is an endless source of conflicts in sysctl.h,
-breaking of the user space ABI (because of those conflicts), and maintenance
-problems. A complete pass through all of the sysctl users revealed multiple
-instances where the sysctl binary interface was broken and had gone undetected
-for years.
-
-So please do not add new binary sysctl numbers. They are unneeded and
-problematic.
-
-If you really need a new binary sysctl number please first merge your sysctl
-into the kernel and then as a separate patch allocate a binary sysctl number.
-
-(ebiederm@xmission.com, June 2007)