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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2008-10-15 22:04:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:47 -0700
commitf221e726bf4e082a05dcd573379ac859bfba7126 (patch)
treea05f674caac693dc9aec7e46dd06115389f7ece3 /drivers/char
parentf40cbaa5b0a4719489e6e7947351c99a159aca30 (diff)
sysctl: simplify ->strategy
name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove them. In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array may be needed (name). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ] Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 6af435b8986..c8752eaad48 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ static int proc_do_uuid(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
return proc_dostring(&fake_table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
}
-static int uuid_strategy(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
+static int uuid_strategy(ctl_table *table,
void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
void __user *newval, size_t newlen)
{