From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:37:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:42967 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20041430AbXAPQhB (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:37:01 +0000 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-2) with ESMTP id l0GGYSew000719; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:34:28 -0700 Received: (from eric@localhost) by ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l0GGXl8M000468; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:33:47 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com: eric set sender to ebiederm@xmission.com using -f From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Andrew Morton Cc: , Linux Containers , , xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, minyard@acm.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux390@de.ibm.com, linux-390@vm.marist.edu, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, linuxsh-shmedia-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, , vojtech@suse.cz, clemens@ladisch.de, a.zummo@towertech.it, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-parport@lists.infradead.org, andrea@suse.de, tim@cyberelk.net, philb@gnu.org, aharkes@cs.cmu.edu, coda@cs.cmu.edu, codalist@TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, aia21@cantab.net, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, mark.fasheh@oracle.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com Subject: [PATCH 0/59] Cleanup sysctl Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:33:47 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 13613 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ebiederm@xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips There has not been much maintenance on sysctl in years, and as a result is there is a lot to do to allow future interesting work to happen, and being ambitious I'm trying to do it all at once :) The patches in this series fall into several general categories. - Removal of useless attempts to override the standard sysctls - Registers of sysctl numbers in sysctl.h so someone else does not use the magic number and conflict. - C99 conversions so it becomes possible to change the layout of struct ctl_table without breaking everything. - Removal of useless claims of module ownership, in the proc dir entries - Removal of sys_sysctl support where people had used conflicting sysctl numbers. Trying to break glibc or other applications by changing the ABI is not cool. 9 instances of this in the kernel seems a little extreme. - General enhancements when I got the junk I could see out. Odds are I missed something, most of the cleanups are simply a result of me working on the sysctl core and glancing at the users and going: What? Eric From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:42967 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20041430AbXAPQhB (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:37:01 +0000 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: [PATCH 0/59] Cleanup sysctl Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:33:47 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-Path: Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Containers , netdev@vger.kernel.org, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, minyard@acm.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux390@de.ibm.com, linux-390@vm.marist.edu, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, lethal@linux-sh.orglethal@linux-sh.org, linuxsh-shmedia-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, ak@suse.de, vojtech@suse.cz, clemens@ladisch.de, a.zummo@towertech.it, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-parport@lists.infradead.org, andrea@suse.de, tim@cyberelk.net, philb@gnu.org, aharkes@cs.cmu.edu, coda@cs.cmu.edu, codalist@TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, aia21@cantab.net, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, mark.fasheh@oracle.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com Message-ID: <20070116163347.N1x4NH1XJPj6EL6ZGjCIexZb7CwmgNO4jZnwfoXk7Xs@z> There has not been much maintenance on sysctl in years, and as a result is there is a lot to do to allow future interesting work to happen, and being ambitious I'm trying to do it all at once :) The patches in this series fall into several general categories. - Removal of useless attempts to override the standard sysctls - Registers of sysctl numbers in sysctl.h so someone else does not use the magic number and conflict. - C99 conversions so it becomes possible to change the layout of struct ctl_table without breaking everything. - Removal of useless claims of module ownership, in the proc dir entries - Removal of sys_sysctl support where people had used conflicting sysctl numbers. Trying to break glibc or other applications by changing the ABI is not cool. 9 instances of this in the kernel seems a little extreme. - General enhancements when I got the junk I could see out. Odds are I missed something, most of the cleanups are simply a result of me working on the sysctl core and glancing at the users and going: What? Eric