From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Undeprecate the sysctl system call
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:31:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061018123115.662ec5c7.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161189661.9363.83.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:41:01 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Ar Mer, 2006-10-18 am 12:20 -0400, ysgrifennodd Cal Peake:
> > Until something better comes along this'll get us back to the status quo.
> >
> > @Andrew, this patch is a replacement for the one from yesterday.
> >
> > From: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>
> >
> > Undeprecate the sysctl system call and default to always include it with
> > the option for embedded folks to exclude it. Also, remove it's entry from
> > the feature removal file and fixup the comment in it's header file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>
>
> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
>
> Maybe also add "Do not add new entries to these tables" to address
> Andi's concern about people updating them.
I agree that those tables in sysctl.h are a right royal pita to maintain.
And there sure is a lot of gunk in there which it would be nice to scrap.
So Andi's plan sounds reasonable to me - it'd only take a few lines to
implement sysctl(CTL_KERN/KERN_VERSION) as a back-compat thing (and it'll
be faster!). And we add a printk so we find out which other sysctls (if
any) are being used in the wild.
?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-18 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-17 15:59 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL Jan Beulich
2006-10-17 16:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-17 18:17 ` [PATCH] Restore sysctl syscall option for non-embedded users Cal Peake
2006-10-17 22:11 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-17 21:59 ` Cal Peake
2006-10-17 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-17 23:09 ` [PATCH] Undeprecate the sysctl system call Cal Peake
2006-10-17 23:19 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 3:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-18 11:02 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 11:33 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-18 12:15 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 12:41 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-18 12:59 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 13:08 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-18 16:20 ` [PATCHv2] " Cal Peake
2006-10-18 16:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-18 16:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 19:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-10-18 22:13 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-19 15:09 ` [PATCH] " Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-19 16:35 ` Alan Cox
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