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-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt12
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig19
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 1ac3c74646e3..d52c4aaaf17f 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -53,18 +53,6 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
---------------------------
-What: sys_sysctl
-When: January 2007
-Why: The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the
- interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be
- any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl. The additional
- maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets
- in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface.
-
-Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
When: November 2005
Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index c8b2624af176..176f7e5136c7 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -304,20 +304,19 @@ config UID16
config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
- default n
+ default y
select SYSCTL
---help---
- Enable the deprecated sysctl system call. sys_sysctl uses
- binary paths that have been found to be a major pain to maintain
- and use. The interface in /proc/sys is now the primary and what
- everyone uses.
+ sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
+ to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
+ using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
+ information.
- Nothing has been using the binary sysctl interface for some
- time now so nothing should break if you disable sysctl syscall
- support, and your kernel will get marginally smaller.
+ Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
+ trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
+ making your kernel marginally smaller.
- Unless you have an application that uses the sys_sysctl interface
- you should probably say N here.
+ If unsure say Y here.
config KALLSYMS
bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED