From 0b4d414714f0d2f922d39424b0c5c82ad900a381 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:34:09 -0800 Subject: [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 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 --- arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c | 2 +- arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | 2 +- arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/ia64') diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c index 37bb16f07fc..5cdd2f5fa06 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ machine_crash_setup(void) if((ret = register_die_notifier(&kdump_init_notifier_nb)) != 0) return ret; #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL - register_sysctl_table(sys_table, 0); + register_sysctl_table(sys_table); #endif return 0; } diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c index d2f299d9897..2ecb20b551e 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c @@ -6726,7 +6726,7 @@ pfm_init(void) /* * create /proc/sys/kernel/perfmon (for debugging purposes) */ - pfm_sysctl_header = register_sysctl_table(pfm_sysctl_root, 0); + pfm_sysctl_header = register_sysctl_table(pfm_sysctl_root); /* * initialize all our spinlocks diff --git a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c index e04f7b5f2aa..68355ef6f84 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c +++ b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c @@ -1241,7 +1241,7 @@ xpc_init(void) snprintf(xpc_part->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "part"); snprintf(xpc_chan->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "chan"); - xpc_sysctl = register_sysctl_table(xpc_sys_dir, 0); + xpc_sysctl = register_sysctl_table(xpc_sys_dir); /* * The first few fields of each entry of xpc_partitions[] need to -- cgit v1.2.3