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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2019-10-01 13:01:19 -0500 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2019-11-26 13:03:56 -0600 |
| commit | 61a47c1ad3a4dc6882f01ebdc88138ac62d0df03 (patch) | |
| tree | d4797e7d2eff82aea6ab9654b7302b6217882d43 /arch/arc | |
| parent | 54ecb8f7028c5eb3d740bb82b0f1d90f2df63c5c (diff) | |
| download | linux-61a47c1ad3a4dc6882f01ebdc88138ac62d0df03.tar.bz2 | |
sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call
This system call has been deprecated almost since it was introduced, and
in a survey of the linux distributions I can no longer find any of them
that enable CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL. The only indication that I can find
that anyone might care is that a few of the defconfigs in the kernel
enable CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL. However this appears in only 31 of 414
defconfigs in the kernel, so I suspect this symbols presence is simply
because it is harmless to include rather than because it is necessary.
As there appear to be no users of the sysctl system call, remove the
code. As this removes one of the few uses of the internal kernel mount
of proc I hope this allows for even more simplifications of the proc
filesystem.
Cc: Alex Smith <alex.smith@imgtec.com>
Cc: Anders Berg <anders.berg@lsi.com>
Cc: Apelete Seketeli <apelete@seketeli.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Chee Nouk Phoon <cnphoon@altera.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Harvey Hunt <harvey.hunt@imgtec.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Hongliang Tao <taohl@lemote.com>
Cc: Hua Yan <yanh@lemote.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Cc: Jonas Jensen <jonas.jensen@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jun Nie <jun.nie@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Wells <kevin.wells@nxp.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com>
Cc: Pierrick Hascoet <pierrick.hascoet@abilis.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Scott Telford <stelford@cadence.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
Cc: Tanmay Inamdar <tinamdar@apm.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/configs/nps_defconfig | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/configs/tb10x_defconfig | 1 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arc/configs/nps_defconfig b/arch/arc/configs/nps_defconfig index 5978d4d7d5b0..07f26ed39f02 100644 --- a/arch/arc/configs/nps_defconfig +++ b/arch/arc/configs/nps_defconfig @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3=y -CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y # CONFIG_EPOLL is not set # CONFIG_SIGNALFD is not set # CONFIG_TIMERFD is not set diff --git a/arch/arc/configs/tb10x_defconfig b/arch/arc/configs/tb10x_defconfig index 3a138f8c7299..a12656ec0072 100644 --- a/arch/arc/configs/tb10x_defconfig +++ b/arch/arc/configs/tb10x_defconfig @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID=2100 CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_GID=501 # CONFIG_RD_GZIP is not set CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3=y -CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y # CONFIG_AIO is not set CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y |