In article <20070809.184921.11594412.davem@davemloft.net> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:49:21 -0700 (PDT)), David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> says:

> From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / $B5HF#1QL@(B <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:47:10 +0900 (JST)
> 
> > I disagree.  It is bad to remove existing interface.
> > Ditto for other patches.
> 
> I think perhaps you misunderstand what Eric is doing.
> 
> sys_sysctl() isn't working properly for these cases and it is both a
> deprecated interface and not worth the pain of adding support
> in these cases.

Would you explain why it does not work properly
for those cases?

--yoshfuji