Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits)
  security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl.
  security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount.
  sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
  sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED
  sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions.
  sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support
  sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
  sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name
  sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support
  sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support
  sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 23003a8ea3e7..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
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@@ -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)