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    [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl · 0b4d4147
    Eric W. Biederman authored
    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: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMartin 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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