Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl obligatory except under CONFIG_EMBEDDED

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:07:50AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> > This patch makes sysctl non-optional unless EMBEDDED is set.  There
> > are a number of interfaces exposed via sysctl, enough that it has to
> > be considered core kernel functionality at this point.
> 
> is this to help the user to configure the kernel or is it to remove
> complexity (you just introduced some)

Obviously the first.

I don't see how his patch affects complexity in any way. The patch is 
both small and obvious (and CONFIG_SYSCTL=n is still a valid and 
supported configuration).

> Gruss
> Bernd

cu
Adrian

BTW: Dropping people from the Cc is considered impolite on this list.

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