From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <be-news06@lina.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl obligatory except under CONFIG_EMBEDDED
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:49:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060530104943.GF3955@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Fksi6-0003Tm-00@calista.eckenfels.net>
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:07:50AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> > This patch makes sysctl non-optional unless EMBEDDED is set. There
> > are a number of interfaces exposed via sysctl, enough that it has to
> > be considered core kernel functionality at this point.
>
> is this to help the user to configure the kernel or is it to remove
> complexity (you just introduced some)
Obviously the first.
I don't see how his patch affects complexity in any way. The patch is
both small and obvious (and CONFIG_SYSCTL=n is still a valid and
supported configuration).
> Gruss
> Bernd
cu
Adrian
BTW: Dropping people from the Cc is considered impolite on this list.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-29 23:34 [PATCH] Make sysctl obligatory except under CONFIG_EMBEDDED H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-30 1:07 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-05-30 10:49 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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