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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2] SYSCTL: Make bin_table not const
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:06:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1d429o1g5.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091219211831.GA19716@basil.fritz.box> (Andi Kleen's message of "Sat\, 19 Dec 2009 22\:18\:31 +0100")

Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> writes:

> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 09:40:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> > 
>> > Turn all the bin_tables from const to non-const. This is needed for the next
>> > patch. Unfortunately there were a lot of them, so the patch is rather 
>> > large, but it is completely mechanic. 
>> 
>> Ouch. I hate this.
>> 
>> I'd much rather have a constant sysctl bin_table.
>
> Understood. I'll poke at that and try to come up with a tested patch
> tomorrow or so.

Is printk_ratelimit truly ineffective at what it does?

Arguably we don't need to warn anywhere near that often, so even
if printk_ratelimit works we are good.

If printk_ratelimit let's too much through we really should also write
a patch to let fewer messages through that way.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-20 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-19 14:58 [PATCH] [0/2] SYSCTL: Warn once for all legacy syctls Andi Kleen
2009-12-19 14:58 ` [PATCH] [1/2] SYSCTL: Make bin_table not const Andi Kleen
2009-12-19 17:40   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-19 21:18     ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-20 20:06       ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-12-20 21:06         ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-21  1:23     ` [PATCH] SYSCTL: Print binary sysctl warnings (nearly) only once Andi Kleen
2009-12-19 14:58 ` [PATCH] [2/2] SYSCTL: Warn once for every binary sysctl Andi Kleen

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