[PATCH] sysctl: remove support for directory strategy routines
parse_table has support for calling a strategy routine when descending into a
directory. To date no one has used this functionality and the /proc/sys
interface has no analog to it.
So no one is using this functionality kill it and make the binary sysctl code
easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: 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 48708a7..cb46d01 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1175,14 +1175,6 @@
if (table->child) {
if (ctl_perm(table, 001))
return -EPERM;
- if (table->strategy) {
- error = table->strategy(
- table, name, nlen,
- oldval, oldlenp,
- newval, newlen);
- if (error)
- return error;
- }
name++;
nlen--;
table = table->child;