Re: [PATCH 3/22] /dev/random: remove broken resizing sysctl

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Thu Mar 25 2004 - 22:54:44 EST


On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 04:15:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > /dev/random remove broken resizing sysctl
>
> This could break things. Shouldn't we leave the /proc entry there
> and print a friendly message in the sysctl handler?

I could do that, yes. I would be really surprised if there were any
users, however.

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Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting
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