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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 /kernel/sysctl.c
parentae836810263509ff7a3c2c021754ce6f66b3fab6 (diff)
[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 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c9
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index cb46d0156840..6ccb6cc19e28 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1244,7 +1244,6 @@ int do_sysctl_strategy (ctl_table *table,
/**
* register_sysctl_table - register a sysctl hierarchy
* @table: the top-level table structure
- * @insert_at_head: whether the entry should be inserted in front or at the end
*
* Register a sysctl table hierarchy. @table should be a filled in ctl_table
* array. An entry with a ctl_name of 0 terminates the table.
@@ -1310,8 +1309,7 @@ int do_sysctl_strategy (ctl_table *table,
* This routine returns %NULL on a failure to register, and a pointer
* to the table header on success.
*/
-struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_table(ctl_table * table,
- int insert_at_head)
+struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_table(ctl_table * table)
{
struct ctl_table_header *tmp;
tmp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ctl_table_header), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -1322,10 +1320,7 @@ struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_table(ctl_table * table,
tmp->used = 0;
tmp->unregistering = NULL;
spin_lock(&sysctl_lock);
- if (insert_at_head)
- list_add(&tmp->ctl_entry, &root_table_header.ctl_entry);
- else
- list_add_tail(&tmp->ctl_entry, &root_table_header.ctl_entry);
+ list_add_tail(&tmp->ctl_entry, &root_table_header.ctl_entry);
spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
register_proc_table(table, proc_sys_root, tmp);