From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, serue@us.ibm.com,
frankeh@watson.ibm.com, clg@fr.ibm.com,
Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] prepare sysctls for containers
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 01:24:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060307012438.GL27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060306235249.880CB28A@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:52:49PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> Right now, sysctls can only deal with global variables. This
> patch makes them a _little_ more flexible by allowing there to
> be an accessor function to get at the variable being changed,
> instead of it being global.
>
> This allows the sysctls to be backed by variables that are,
> for instance, dynamically allocated and not available at
> compile-time.
>
> This also provides a very simple mechanism to take things that
> are currently global and containerize them.
>
This is disgusting. Please, don't pile more and more complexity into
sysctl_table - it's already choke-full of it and needs to be simplified,
not to grow more crap.
NAK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-07 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-06 23:52 [RFC][PATCH 0/6] support separate namespaces for sysv Dave Hansen
2006-03-06 23:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/6] prepare sysctls for containers Dave Hansen
2006-03-07 0:50 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-03-07 2:00 ` Dave Hansen
2006-03-07 2:45 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-03-19 15:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-07 1:01 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-07 2:04 ` Dave Hansen
2006-03-07 2:18 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-07 3:02 ` Sam Vilain
2006-03-07 1:24 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-03-07 1:55 ` Dave Hansen
2006-03-07 1:57 ` Al Viro
2006-03-19 14:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-19 15:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-06 23:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/6] sysvmsg: containerize Dave Hansen
2006-03-07 1:57 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-07 2:08 ` Dave Hansen
2006-03-07 2:34 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-19 15:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-20 19:34 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-20 21:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-20 21:50 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-06 23:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/6] sysvmsg: containerize sysctls Dave Hansen
2006-03-06 23:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/6] sysvsem: containerize Dave Hansen
2006-03-07 2:44 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-07 5:08 ` Dave Hansen
2006-03-06 23:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/6] sysvshm: containerize Dave Hansen
2006-03-06 23:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/6] sysvshm: containerize sysctls Dave Hansen
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