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| author | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2008-10-16 09:04:23 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-16 22:21:47 +0400 |
| commit | f221e726bf4e082a05dcd573379ac859bfba7126 (patch) | |
| tree | a05f674caac693dc9aec7e46dd06115389f7ece3 /include/linux | |
| parent | f40cbaa5b0a4719489e6e7947351c99a159aca30 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f221e726bf4e082a05dcd573379ac859bfba7126.tar.xz | |
sysctl: simplify ->strategy
name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them. In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sysctl.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index d0437f36921f..39d471d1163b 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ extern int sysctl_perm(struct ctl_table_root *root, typedef struct ctl_table ctl_table; -typedef int ctl_handler (struct ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen, +typedef int ctl_handler (struct ctl_table *table, void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp, void __user *newval, size_t newlen); |