From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750821AbXAPSfY (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:35:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750790AbXAPSfX (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:35:23 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:47642 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750696AbXAPSfW (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:35:22 -0500 Message-ID: <45AD1AD7.7030804@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:35:03 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070102) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Containers , Tony Luck , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/59] Cleanup sysctl References: <45AD02FF.605@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> I think it would be fair to say that if they're not in they're >> not architectural, but that doesn't resolve the counterpositive (are there >> sysctls in which aren't architectural? From the looks of it, I >> would say yes.) Non-architectural sysctl numbers should not be exported to >> userspace, and should eventually be rejected by sys_sysctl. > > This last bit doesn't make much sense. I believe you are saying all sysctl > numbers should be per architecture. > With "architectural" I mean "guaranteed to be stable" (as opposed to "incidental"). Sorry for the confusion. -hpa