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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-01-06 11:55:30 -0800
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-01-24 16:40:28 -0800
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sysctl: Remove the now unused ctl_table parent field.
While useful at one time for selinux and the sysctl sanity checks those users no longer use the parent field and we can safely remove it. Inspired-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmil.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 25c7dfe1a7ec..094bc5ccf1e2 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -1016,7 +1016,6 @@ struct ctl_table
int maxlen;
umode_t mode;
struct ctl_table *child; /* Deprecated */
- struct ctl_table *parent; /* Automatically set */
proc_handler *proc_handler; /* Callback for text formatting */
struct ctl_table_poll *poll;
void *extra1;