From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Undeprecate the sysctl system call
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:08:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610181508.54237.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161176382.9363.35.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 14:59, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Mer, 2006-10-18 am 14:41 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen:
> > It's less work long term, mostly because all the rejects for sysctl.h will
> > go away. And it's more compatible than just removing sysctl(2) completely.
>
> What rejects for sysctl.h, nobody is going to add new entries to
> sysctl(2) so there will be no rejects.
Yes, but it still means the bizarre register_sysctl() call convention
has to be maintained internally.
If the existing sysctl.c/sysctl.h stuff wasn't needed anymore this
could be replaced with a sane
register_sysctl_name("a/b/c", &sysctl_struct)
and clean up a lot of code.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-18 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-17 15:59 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL Jan Beulich
2006-10-17 16:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-17 18:17 ` [PATCH] Restore sysctl syscall option for non-embedded users Cal Peake
2006-10-17 22:11 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-17 21:59 ` Cal Peake
2006-10-17 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-17 23:09 ` [PATCH] Undeprecate the sysctl system call Cal Peake
2006-10-17 23:19 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 3:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-18 11:02 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 11:33 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-18 12:15 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 12:41 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-18 12:59 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 13:08 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-10-18 16:20 ` [PATCHv2] " Cal Peake
2006-10-18 16:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-18 16:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 19:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-18 22:13 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-19 15:09 ` [PATCH] " Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-19 16:35 ` Alan Cox
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