[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl

The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same

[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl

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: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Martin 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: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[PATCH] sysctl: dccp: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morto

[PATCH] sysctl: dccp: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge ../linus

Merge ../linus

Conflicts:

drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c

Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

drivers/usb/input/hid.h

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
drivers/usb/core/hub.h
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
net/core/netpoll.c

Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

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Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into for-linus

[DCCP]: Remove allocation of sysctl numbers

This is in response to a request sent earlier by Eric W. Biederman
and replaces all sysctl numbers for net.dccp.default with CTL_UNNUMBERED.

It has been

[DCCP]: Remove allocation of sysctl numbers

This is in response to a request sent earlier by Eric W. Biederman
and replaces all sysctl numbers for net.dccp.default with CTL_UNNUMBERED.

It has been tested to compile and to work.

Commiter note: I've removed the use of CTL_UNNUMBERED, not setting .ctl_name
sets it to 0, that is the what CTL_UNNUMBERED is, reason is
to avoid unneeded source code cluttering.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>

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[DCCP]: Adds the tx buffer sysctls

This one got lost on the way from Ian to Gerrit to me, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acm

[DCCP]: Adds the tx buffer sysctls

This one got lost on the way from Ian to Gerrit to me, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>

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[DCCP]: Introduce a consistent naming scheme for sysctls

In order to make their function clearer and obtain a consistent naming
scheme to identify sysctls, all existing DCCP sysctls have been prefix

[DCCP]: Introduce a consistent naming scheme for sysctls

In order to make their function clearer and obtain a consistent naming
scheme to identify sysctls, all existing DCCP sysctls have been prefixed
with `sysctl_dccp', following the same convention as used by TCP.

Feature-specific sysctls retain the `feat' in the middle, although the
`default' has been dropped, since it is obvious from use.

Also removed a duplicate `dccp_feat_default_sequence_window' in ipv4.c.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>

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[DCCP]: Add sysctls to control retransmission behaviour

This adds 3 sysctls which govern the retransmission behaviour of DCCP control
packets (3way handshake, feature negotiation).

It removes 4 FIX

[DCCP]: Add sysctls to control retransmission behaviour

This adds 3 sysctls which govern the retransmission behaviour of DCCP control
packets (3way handshake, feature negotiation).

It removes 4 FIXMEs from the code.

The close resemblance of sysctl variables to their TCP analogues is emphasised
not only by their name, but also by giving them the same initial values.
This is useful since there is not much practical experience with DCCP yet.

Furthermore, with regard to the previous patch, it is now possible to limit
the number of keepalive-Responses by setting net.dccp.default.request_retries
(also a bit like in TCP).

Lastly, added documentation of all existing DCCP sysctls.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>

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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Manually resolve conflict in include/mtd/Kbuild

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-upstream into devel

[GFS2] Fix up merge of Linus' kernel into GFS2

This fixes up a couple of conflicts when merging up with
Linus' latest kernel. This will hopefully allow GFS2 to
be more easily merged into forthcoming

[GFS2] Fix up merge of Linus' kernel into GFS2

This fixes up a couple of conflicts when merging up with
Linus' latest kernel. This will hopefully allow GFS2 to
be more easily merged into forthcoming -mm and FC kernels
due to the "one line per header" format now used for the
kernel headers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Conflicts:

include/linux/Kbuild
include/linux/kernel.h

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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge branch 'master' into upstream

Merge mulgrave-w:git/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

include/linux/blkdev.h

Trivial merge to incorporate tag prototypes.

Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (353 commits)
[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Mobile IPv6 Home Address support.
[IPV

Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (353 commits)
[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Mobile IPv6 Home Address support.
[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Allow non-DAD'able addresses.
[IPV6] NDISC: Fix is_router flag setting.
[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Convert addrconf_lock to RCU.
[IPV6] NDISC: Add proxy_ndp sysctl.
[IPV6] NDISC: Set per-entry is_router flag in Proxy NA.
[IPV6] NDISC: Avoid updating neighbor cache for proxied address in receiving NA.
[IPV6]: Don't forward packets to proxied link-local address.
[IPV6] NDISC: Handle NDP messages to proxied addresses.
[NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: fix another GRE keymap leak
[NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: fix GRE keymap leak
[NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: fix PPTP_IN_CALL message types
[NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: check call ID before changing state
[NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: clean up debugging cruft
[NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: consolidate header parsing
[NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: consolidate header size checks
[NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: simplify expectation handling
[NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: remove unnecessary cid/pcid header pointers
[NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: fix header definitions
[NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: remove more dead code
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[DCCP]: Shift sysctls into feat.h

This shifts further sysctls into feat.h. No change in
functionality - shifting code only.

Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Dav

[DCCP]: Shift sysctls into feat.h

This shifts further sysctls into feat.h. No change in
functionality - shifting code only.

Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Merge branch 'master' of /home/sam/kernel/linux-2.6/

Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/

Merge rsync://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

include/linux/kernel.h

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
remove obsolete swsusp_en

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt
arch/arm26/Kconfig typos
Documentation/IPMI typos
Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig
v9fs: do not include linux/version.h
Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: typo fixes
typo fixes: specfic -> specific
typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
typo fixes: occuring -> occurring
typo fixes: infomation -> information
typo fixes: disadvantadge -> disadvantage
typo fixes: aquire -> acquire
typo fixes: mecanism -> mechanism
typo fixes: bandwith -> bandwidth
fix a typo in the RTC_CLASS help text
smb is no longer maintained

Manually merged trivial conflict in arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

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Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>