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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2007-07-15 23:41:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-16 09:05:49 -0700
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sysctl.c: add text telling people to use CTL_UNNUMBERED
Hopefully this will help people to understand the new regime. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c21
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 2cce2286bdcd..7dca326648d5 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -203,7 +203,10 @@ static ctl_table root_table[] = {
.mode = 0555,
.child = dev_table,
},
-
+/*
+ * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
+ * Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
+ */
{ .ctl_name = 0 }
};
@@ -992,6 +995,14 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.extra1 = &zero,
},
#endif
+/*
+ * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
+ * Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
+ */
+/*
+ * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
+ * Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
+ */
{ .ctl_name = 0 }
};
@@ -1132,6 +1143,14 @@ static ctl_table fs_table[] = {
.child = binfmt_misc_table,
},
#endif
+/*
+ * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
+ * Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
+ */
+/*
+ * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
+ * Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
+ */
{ .ctl_name = 0 }
};