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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sysctls
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:06:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1irbkqkvp.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070425.130011.21926881.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:00:11 -0700 (PDT)")

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:29:24 -0700
>
>> 
>> I note that the networking tree is adding new sysctls:
>> 
>> <<<<<<< HEAD/include/linux/sysctl.h
>>         NET_IPV6_ACCEPT_SOURCE_ROUTE=25,
>> =======
>>         NET_IPV6_OPTIMISTIC_DAD=24,
>>         NET_IPV6_ACCEPT_SOURCE_ROUTE=25,
>> >>>>>>> /include/linux/sysctl.h
>> 
>> (Well, it's trying to - there are some git rejects in net-2.6.22)
>
> I knew this was going to happen because of Yoshifuji's
> security fix, the conflict is trivial to resolve.
>
> I'll rebase the net-2.6.22 tree later today since all
> we should have before 2.6.21-final is the netlink
> OOPS'er fix Alexey just posted.

David for clarity do you happen to know of anyone using binary
sysctl values?

In particular is there any reason not to use CTL_UNNUMBERED
for new networking sysctls?

Eric


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-25 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-25 19:29 sysctls Andrew Morton
2007-04-25 19:45 ` sysctls Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-25 19:53   ` sysctls Neil Horman
2007-04-25 21:50     ` sysctls Andrew Morton
2007-04-25 23:47       ` sysctls David Miller
2007-04-26 11:12         ` sysctls Neil Horman
2007-04-25 20:00 ` sysctls David Miller
2007-04-25 20:06   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-04-25 20:10     ` sysctls David Miller
2007-04-25 20:13       ` sysctls Eric W. Biederman

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