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135 files changed, 2183 insertions, 4748 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 23003a8ea3e..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ - -Except for a few extremely rare exceptions user space applications do not use -the binary sysctl interface. Instead everyone uses /proc/sys/... with -readable ascii names. - -Recently the kernel has started supporting setting the binary sysctl value to -CTL_UNNUMBERED so we no longer need to assign a binary sysctl path to allow -sysctls to show up in /proc/sys. - -Assigning binary sysctl numbers is an endless source of conflicts in sysctl.h, -breaking of the user space ABI (because of those conflicts), and maintenance -problems. A complete pass through all of the sysctl users revealed multiple -instances where the sysctl binary interface was broken and had gone undetected -for years. - -So please do not add new binary sysctl numbers. They are unneeded and -problematic. - -If you really need a new binary sysctl number please first merge your sysctl -into the kernel and then as a separate patch allocate a binary sysctl number. - -(ebiederm@xmission.com, June 2007) diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/isa.c b/arch/arm/kernel/isa.c index 8ac9b842400..34648591073 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/isa.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/isa.c @@ -22,47 +22,42 @@ static unsigned int isa_membase, isa_portbase, isa_portshift; static ctl_table ctl_isa_vars[4] = { { - .ctl_name = BUS_ISA_MEM_BASE, .procname = "membase", .data = &isa_membase, .maxlen = sizeof(isa_membase), .mode = 0444, - .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, }, { - .ctl_name = BUS_ISA_PORT_BASE, .procname = "portbase", .data = &isa_portbase, .maxlen = sizeof(isa_portbase), .mode = 0444, - .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, }, { - .ctl_name = BUS_ISA_PORT_SHIFT, .procname = "portshift", .data = &isa_portshift, .maxlen = sizeof(isa_portshift), .mode = 0444, - .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, - }, {0} + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + }, {} }; static struct ctl_table_header *isa_sysctl_header; static ctl_table ctl_isa[2] = { { - .ctl_name = CTL_BUS_ISA, .procname = "isa", .mode = 0555, .child = ctl_isa_vars, - }, {0} + }, {} }; static ctl_table ctl_bus[2] = { { - .ctl_name = CTL_BUS, |