From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
ebiederm@xmission.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2] SYSCTL: Make bin_table not const
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:18:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091219211831.GA19716@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912190929180.3712@localhost.localdomain>
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 09:40:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > Turn all the bin_tables from const to non-const. This is needed for the next
> > patch. Unfortunately there were a lot of them, so the patch is rather
> > large, but it is completely mechanic.
>
> Ouch. I hate this.
>
> I'd much rather have a constant sysctl bin_table.
Understood. I'll poke at that and try to come up with a tested patch
tomorrow or so.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-19 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-19 14:58 [PATCH] [0/2] SYSCTL: Warn once for all legacy syctls Andi Kleen
2009-12-19 14:58 ` [PATCH] [1/2] SYSCTL: Make bin_table not const Andi Kleen
2009-12-19 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-19 21:18 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-12-20 20:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-20 21:06 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 1:23 ` [PATCH] SYSCTL: Print binary sysctl warnings (nearly) only once Andi Kleen
2009-12-19 14:58 ` [PATCH] [2/2] SYSCTL: Warn once for every binary sysctl Andi Kleen
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