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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm2
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:41:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070821104121.GA26598@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1odhfxqi0.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>


* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:

> Ok.  I missed that.  Duh.  I just saw Andrews drop message.
> 
> This looks like Alexey respun my patch, or else we were thinking on 
> parallel paths.  Probably parallel given Alexey's dislike of using the 
> CTL_UNNUMBERED define.
> 
> There are two remaining gotchas:
> - The directories have impossible permissions (writeable).
> 
> - The ctl_name for the kernel directory is inconsistent with
>   everything else.  It should be CTL_KERN.

thx, i've applied your patch to my tree.

> I kind of feel bad about being so picky but the this code is the only 
> place in the kernel where I have seen us violate either of those 
> rules, and it is a lot easier to deal with things when they are 
> consistent.

sure enough, i'm not opposed at all to fixing these issues. We should 
move your debug-sysctl-bugs patch upstream ASAP.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-21 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-10  5:42 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-08-10  7:59 ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-08-10  8:18 ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Dave Young
2007-08-10  8:32   ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-08-10  8:37     ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Dave Young
2007-08-10  9:52       ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Dave Young
2007-08-10 11:19         ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Gabriel C
2007-08-10 20:22           ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 -- conntrack divide error Jiri Slaby
2007-08-10  9:23 ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Aurelien Jarno
2007-08-10 16:40   ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-10 16:59     ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Adrian Bunk
2007-08-10 17:21       ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-10 17:28         ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Adrian Bunk
2007-08-10 10:23 ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Gabriel C
2007-08-10 11:03   ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Gabriel C
2007-08-10 16:05     ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 12:35   ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Gabriel C
2007-08-10 16:38     ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-08-12 15:21       ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Gabriel C
2007-08-10 12:37   ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Gabriel C
2007-08-10 13:20     ` [PATCH -mm] Fix some section mismatch warnings Gabriel C
2007-08-14 20:50       ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-10 19:04     ` Section mismatch warnings ( Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 ) Gabriel C
2007-08-10 19:32       ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-10 12:42   ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Gabriel C
2007-08-11 20:58     ` [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 David Brownell
2007-08-12 10:15       ` Gabriel C
2007-08-10 16:03   ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 14:38 ` [-mm patch] kernel/sysctl_check.c must #include <linux/string.h> Adrian Bunk
2007-08-10 21:32   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 14:53 ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2007-08-10 15:05   ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2007-08-10 16:01     ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 16:05       ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2007-08-10 17:10         ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-08-10 17:12         ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-21 10:41           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-08-10 15:56 ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2: drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c compile error Adrian Bunk
2007-08-10 16:39   ` Samuel Thibault
2007-08-10 16:16 ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2007-08-10 16:37   ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Gabriel C
2007-08-10 17:33     ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 19:41       ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-08-10 19:54         ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 21:00         ` [PATCH 1/7] sysctl: Remove broken cdrom binary sysctls Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 21:01           ` [PATCH 2/7] sysctl: parport remove binary paths Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 21:03             ` [PATCH 3/7] sysctl: Simplify the pty sysctl logic Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 21:06               ` [PATCH 4/7] sysctl: remove broken netfilter binary sysctls Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 21:08                 ` [PATCH 5/7] sysctl: Cleanup the sched debug sysctl usage Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 21:09                   ` [PATCH 6/7] sysctl: Update sysctl_checks list of binary paths Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 21:10                     ` [PATCH 7/7] sysctl: Remove the cad_pid binary sysctl path Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 21:10           ` [PATCH 1/7] sysctl: Remove broken cdrom binary sysctls Alan Cox
2007-08-10 21:19         ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-10 17:38     ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2007-08-10 17:55 ` arch/i386/kernel/setup.c - compile error (Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm2) Gabriel C
2007-08-10 18:44   ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-10 19:34     ` Gabriel C
2007-08-10 20:08 ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Aurelien Jarno
2007-08-10 20:20   ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-08-10 21:43     ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 John W. Linville
2007-08-11 22:04 ` [PATCH] Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm2: sata disk going slow Hugh Dickins
2007-08-13  5:29 ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 (libertas) Randy Dunlap
2007-08-14 21:23 ` [-mm patch] unexport ide_tune_dma Adrian Bunk
2007-08-14 21:23 ` [-mm patch] AFLAGS: fix the -g setting Adrian Bunk
2007-08-16 21:02   ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-16 22:16     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-16 22:30       ` Roland McGrath
2007-08-14 21:25 ` [-mm patch] remove fs/ext2/balloc.c:reserve_blocks() Adrian Bunk
2007-08-14 21:26 ` [-mm patch] unexport cap_inode_killpriv Adrian Bunk
2007-08-14 21:35   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-08-14 23:43     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-19 15:56 ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 richard kennedy
2007-08-21 23:36   ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-08-23 15:54     ` 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 richard kennedy

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