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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2007-02-14 00:34:09 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-14 08:09:59 -0800
commit0b4d414714f0d2f922d39424b0c5c82ad900a381 (patch)
tree5079ec59a5622c9cacfe0fce484ba2c4626c406f /arch/x86_64
parentae836810263509ff7a3c2c021754ce6f66b3fab6 (diff)
downloadlinux-0b4d414714f0d2f922d39424b0c5c82ad900a381.tar.bz2
[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/x86_64')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_binfmt.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/mm/init.c2
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_binfmt.c b/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_binfmt.c
index 354a0a01ec2d..071100ea1251 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_binfmt.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_binfmt.c
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ static ctl_table abi_root_table2[] = {
static __init int ia32_binfmt_init(void)
{
- register_sysctl_table(abi_root_table2, 0);
+ register_sysctl_table(abi_root_table2);
return 0;
}
__initcall(ia32_binfmt_init);
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c
index c0e2b48be308..313dc6ad780b 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int __init vsyscall_init(void)
BUG_ON((unsigned long) &vgetcpu != VSYSCALL_ADDR(__NR_vgetcpu));
map_vsyscall();
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
- register_sysctl_table(kernel_root_table2, 0);
+ register_sysctl_table(kernel_root_table2);
#endif
on_each_cpu(cpu_vsyscall_init, NULL, 0, 1);
hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 0);
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
index a5c12ea57683..ec31534eb104 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ static ctl_table debug_root_table2[] = {
static __init int x8664_sysctl_init(void)
{
- register_sysctl_table(debug_root_table2, 0);
+ register_sysctl_table(debug_root_table2);
return 0;
}
__initcall(x8664_sysctl_init);