Re: [PATCH] sysctl.h: Comment out unused constants

From: Richard Knutsson
Date: Sat Jan 20 2007 - 07:13:15 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Richard Knutsson wrote:
Comment out unused constants in include/linux/sysctl.h.

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

NAK as all hell.

This file exports an interface to userspace, and thus should be maintained indefinitely.
Oh, then I misunderstood Eric W. Bieders' message about comment out unused numbers.

But just of interest; what happens when userspace use a number not used in the kernel (except in sysctl.h)? Is it just a no-op?

Richard Knutsson

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