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Andi Kleen authored
Deprecate the numerical sysctl name space. People can use /proc/sys instead. The numeric name space was never well maintained and especially in distribution kernels is not very consistent (everybody has their own extensions, conflicting with others). It's also a great source of rejects when merging patches. The name-based /proc/sys is a much better interface for this, which people should use instead. Discussion of this on l-k found no advocate for it, so it seems to not be very popular anyways. This patch deprecates numerical name space accesses to make it possible to remove them in the future. The only exception is kernel.version, which is used by glibc (this one has to be maintained forever)
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