From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25 2/3]sysctl: prepare core tables to point to netns variables Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:12:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20071208.001205.166185340.davem@davemloft.net> References: <47594659.2050505@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47594659.2050505@openvz.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: xemul@openvz.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, devel@openvz.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org From: Pavel Emelyanov Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:10:49 +0300 > Some of ctl variables are going to be on the struct > net. Here's the way to adjust the ->data pointer on the > ctl_table-s to point on the right variable. > > Since some pointers still point on the global variables, > I keep turning the write bits off on such tables. > > This looks to become a common procedure for net sysctls, > so later parts of this code may migrate to some more > generic place. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Applied, but please see if you can find a more pretty way to do this, thanks.