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Eric W. Biederman 0b4d414714 [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>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
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irq [PATCH] Scheduled removal of SA_xxx interrupt flags fixups 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
power [PATCH] swsusp: Change pm_ops handling by userland interface 2007-02-11 10:51:20 -08:00
time [PATCH] kernel/time/clocksource.c needs struct task_struct on m68k 2007-02-11 10:51:20 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c [PATCH] kernel: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:42 -08:00
audit.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
audit.h
auditfilter.c [PATCH] audit: fix audit_filter_user_rules() initialization bug 2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] struct path: convert kernel 2006-12-08 08:28:46 -08:00
capability.c [PATCH] pid: replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
compat.c [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
configs.c [PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification 2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
cpu.c [PATCH] swsusp: Change code ordering in disk.c 2007-02-11 10:51:19 -08:00
cpuset.c [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2 2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
delayacct.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
dma.c [PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification 2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
exec_domain.c
exit.c [PATCH] pid: replace is_orphaned_pgrp with is_current_pgrp_orphaned 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
extable.c
fork.c [PATCH] tty: update the tty layer to work with struct pid 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
futex.c [PATCH] kernel: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:42 -08:00
futex_compat.c [PATCH] __user annotations: futex 2006-10-10 15:37:22 -07:00
hrtimer.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c [PATCH] move kallsyms data to .rodata 2006-12-08 08:28:37 -08:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support 2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c Merge branch 'release' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-12-07 15:39:22 -08:00
kfifo.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
kmod.c [PATCH] rename struct namespace to struct mnt_namespace 2006-12-08 08:28:51 -08:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] kprobes: replace magic numbers with enum 2007-01-30 16:01:35 -08:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
latency.c [PATCH] severing module.h->sched.h 2006-12-04 02:00:22 -05:00
lockdep.c [PATCH] lockdep: add graph depth information to /proc/lockdep 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
lockdep_internals.h [PATCH] lockdep: more chains 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
lockdep_proc.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] sysctl: move utsname sysctls to their own file 2007-02-14 08:09:58 -08:00
module.c /sys/modules/*/holders 2007-02-07 10:37:12 -08:00
mutex-debug.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c [PATCH] lockdep: avoid lockdep warning in md 2006-12-08 08:28:39 -08:00
mutex.h
nsproxy.c Revert "[PATCH] namespaces: fix exit race by splitting exit" 2007-01-30 13:35:18 -08:00
panic.c [PATCH] Add TAINT_USER and ability to set taint flags from userspace 2007-02-11 10:51:29 -08:00
params.c /sys/modules/*/holders 2007-02-07 10:37:12 -08:00
pid.c [PATCH] namespaces: fix task exit disaster 2007-01-30 13:40:36 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: prevent signal delivery starvation 2006-10-17 08:18:43 -07:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] Transform kmem_cache_alloc()+memset(0) -> kmem_cache_zalloc(). 2007-02-11 10:51:27 -08:00
printk.c [PATCH] order of lockdep off/on in vprintk() should be changed 2007-02-11 11:18:06 -08:00
profile.c [PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
ptrace.c
rcupdate.c [PATCH] rcu: add a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch() 2006-12-07 08:39:40 -08:00
rcutorture.c [PATCH] rcu: rcutorture suspend fix 2006-12-30 10:55:55 -08:00
relay.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
resource.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
rtmutex-debug.c Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h> 2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c
sched.c [PATCH] sched: avoid div in rebalance_tick 2007-02-12 09:48:37 -08:00
seccomp.c
signal.c [PATCH] pid: remove the now unused kill_pg kill_pg_info and __kill_pg_info 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
softirq.c [PATCH] softirq: remove BUG_ONs which can incorrectly trigger 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
softlockup.c [PATCH] check return value of cpu_callback 2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] lockdep: spin_lock_irqsave_nested() 2006-11-25 13:28:34 -08:00
srcu.c [PATCH] SRCU: report out-of-memory errors 2006-10-04 07:55:30 -07:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c [PATCH] stop_machine.c copyright 2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
sys.c [PATCH] pid: replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] Create compat_sys_migrate_pages 2006-11-03 12:27:59 -08:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl 2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
taskstats.c [PATCH] taskstats: cleanup reply assembling 2006-12-07 08:39:34 -08:00
time.c [PATCH] NTP: Move all the NTP related code to ntp.c 2006-10-01 00:39:26 -07:00
timer.c [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
tsacct.c [PATCH] io-accounting: via taskstats 2006-12-10 09:55:41 -08:00
uid16.c
user.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
utsname.c [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: implement CLONE_NEWUTS flag 2006-10-02 07:57:22 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl 2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
wait.c
workqueue.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00