sysctl: remove the binary interface for aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video_flags
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:05:29 +0000 (03:05 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:37:23 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
commit0d135a4a8c77f248afd908bc3cf5bd833062589d
tree438da61d9b66057d330827afb479c25a2b5425f6
parent49641b58a7bb90e18b0b55e1af3e9039b24fba61
sysctl: remove the binary interface for aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video_flags

aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video_flags are unsigned long values which sysctl
does not handle properly with a 64bit kernel and a 32bit user space.

Since no one is likely to be using the binary sysctl values and the ascii
interface still works, this patch just removes support for the binary sysctl
interface from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/sysctl.c