[PATCH] sysctl: remove support for directory strategy routines

parse_table has support for calling a strategy routine when descending into a
directory.  To date no one has used this functionality and the /proc/sys
interface has no analog to it.

So no one is using this functionality kill it and make the binary sysctl code
easier to follow.

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, 8 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 48708a73852d..cb46d0156840 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1175,14 +1175,6 @@ repeat:
                         if (table->child) {
                                 if (ctl_perm(table, 001))
                                         return -EPERM;
-                                if (table->strategy) {
-                                        error = table->strategy(
-                                                table, name, nlen,
-                                                oldval, oldlenp,
-                                                newval, newlen);
-                                        if (error)
-                                                return error;
-                                }
                                 name++;
                                 nlen--;
                                 table = table->child;