[PATCH] sysctl: remove support for CTL_ANY

There are currently no users in the kernel for CTL_ANY and it only has effect
on the binary interface which is practically unused.

So this complicates sysctl lookups for no good reason so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 5b8af9069797..51acdec88a61 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ struct __sysctl_args {
 
 /* For internal pattern-matching use only: */
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
-#define CTL_ANY         -1      /* Matches any name */
 #define CTL_NONE        0
 #define CTL_UNNUMBERED  CTL_NONE        /* sysctl without a binary number */
 #endif