[LinuxPPS] 24 Jan 16:07 - sysctl: kill binary sysctl KERN_PPC_L2CR

linuxpps: Eric W. Biederman <> webmaster at enneenne.com
Sun Jan 27 18:30:10 CET 2008


sysctl: kill binary sysctl KERN_PPC_L2CR  
  
: Stefan Roese said:  
> ppc: 4xx: sysctl table check failed: /kernel/l2cr .1.31 Missing strategy  
>  
> I'm seeing this error message when booting an recent arch/ppc kernel on  
> 4xx platforms (tested on Ocotea and other 4xx platforms). Booting NFS  
> rootfs still works fine, but this message kind of makes me "nervous".  
> This is not seen on 4xx arch/powerpc platforms. Here the bootlog:  
  
Because the data field was never filled and a binary sysctl handler was  
never written this sysctl has never been usable through the sys_sysctl  
interface. So just remove the binary sysctl number. Making the kernel  
sanity checks happy.  
  
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman   
Reported-by: Stefan Roese   
Cc: Josh Boyer   
Cc: Wolfgang Denk   
Cc: Paul Mackerras   
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt   
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton   
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds   
  
arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_htab.c

URL: http://gitweb.enneenne.com/?p=linuxpps;a=commit;h=c2f3dabefa73fe3307578553f456e93f0a1bca08



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