[PATCH] Get rid of /proc/sys/proc

The table is empty, why does it still exist?

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index c7132029af0f..6a60770984e9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ enum
         CTL_KERN=1,             /* General kernel info and control */
         CTL_VM=2,               /* VM management */
         CTL_NET=3,              /* Networking */
-        CTL_PROC=4,             /* Process info */
+        /* was CTL_PROC */
         CTL_FS=5,               /* Filesystems */
         CTL_DEBUG=6,            /* Debugging */
         CTL_DEV=7,              /* Devices */
@@ -767,8 +767,6 @@ enum {
         NET_BRIDGE_NF_FILTER_VLAN_TAGGED = 4,
 };
 
-/* CTL_PROC names: */
-
 /* CTL_FS names: */
 enum
 {
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index eb8bd214e7d7..2c0e65819448 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ static struct ctl_table_header root_table_header =
 
 static ctl_table kern_table[];
 static ctl_table vm_table[];
-static ctl_table proc_table[];
 static ctl_table fs_table[];
 static ctl_table debug_table[];
 static ctl_table dev_table[];
@@ -203,12 +202,6 @@ static ctl_table root_table[] = {
         },
 #endif
         {
-                .ctl_name       = CTL_PROC,
-                .procname       = "proc",
-                .mode           = 0555,
-                .child          = proc_table,
-        },
-        {
                 .ctl_name       = CTL_FS,
                 .procname       = "fs",
                 .mode           = 0555,
@@ -927,10 +920,6 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = {
         { .ctl_name = 0 }
 };
 
-static ctl_table proc_table[] = {
-        { .ctl_name = 0 }
-};
-
 static ctl_table fs_table[] = {
         {
                 .ctl_name       = FS_NRINODE,