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    [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl · 0b4d4147
    Eric W. Biederman authored
    
    
    The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
    sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
    pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.
    
    I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
    register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
    duplicate sysctl entries.
    
    So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
    the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
    enhancments harder.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
    Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: And...
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