Re: [PATCH/RFC] Deprecate sysctl(2), add sysctl_name

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> This patch deprecates sysctl(2) by adding a printk to it. There is one
> important user of it - glibc checks kernel.version in the startup code -
> which is still handled without message. This needs to be still handled,
> but the hope is that there are no other users of the numerical interface.

I'd prefer to first _only_ deprecate it, and if somebody really really 
decides that they want another interface than /proc too, we can re-visit 
the thing then.

I doubt there is any real reason to not just use the /proc interface, and 
I dislike pre-emptive engineering.

		Linus