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b: refs/heads/master
c: 13bb7e3
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  40829: 7194943
  40827: 6fe5cc2
  40823: 5f07555
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v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 6c33eb39976b67628452ebc791834c7d590e545e
+refs/heads/master: 13bb7e37e5081d03643e2bd64f3f5d21f32e7221

trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

@@ -53,18 +53,6 @@ Who:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:	sys_sysctl
-When:	January 2007
-Why:	The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the
-	interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be
-	any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl.  The additional
-	maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets
-	in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface.
-
-Who:	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:	PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
 When:	November 2005
 Files:	drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c

trunk/init/Kconfig

@@ -304,20 +304,19 @@ config UID16
 
 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
 	bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
-	default n
+	default y
 	select SYSCTL
 	---help---
-	  Enable the deprecated sysctl system call.  sys_sysctl uses
-	  binary paths that have been found to be a major pain to maintain
-	  and use.  The interface in /proc/sys is now the primary and what
-	  everyone uses.
+	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
+	  to properly maintain and use.  The interface in /proc/sys
+	  using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
+	  information.
 
-	  Nothing has been using the binary sysctl interface for some
-	  time now so nothing should break if you disable sysctl syscall
-	  support, and your kernel will get marginally smaller.
+	  Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
+	  trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
+	  making your kernel marginally smaller.
 
-	  Unless you have an application that uses the sys_sysctl interface
- 	  you should probably say N here.
+	  If unsure say Y here.
 
 config KALLSYMS
 	 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED