From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:41:21 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: sysctl.c: add text telling people to use CTL_UNNUMBERED
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc1~840
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2be7fe075af8f8ba9c8b8ab0feec4ba4fff04979;p=linux-2.6

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>
---

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 2cce2286bd..7dca326648 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 }
 };