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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.18-rt6 sysctl conflict
Date: 18 Oct 2006 18:22:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p733b9ld26e.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061018132530.GA30767@tsunami.ccur.com>

Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> writes:

> Repair conflict between 2.6.18 and preempt-rt's sysctl(2) addition.

In general new sysctl shouldn't get any numbers at all. Just use 0
or so or 999. Distributions and other patches have mangled the 
numerical name so excessively that it is fairly useless for
any newer numbers. I would suggest to just drop them.

-Andi

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-18 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-18 13:25 [PATCH] 2.6.18-rt6 sysctl conflict Joe Korty
2006-10-18 15:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-18 16:22 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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