From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757432AbYG0Ll1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:41:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751158AbYG0LlU (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:41:20 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36958 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750791AbYG0LlT (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:41:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080727.044118.102038262.davem@davemloft.net> To: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] missing bits of net-namespace / sysctl From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080727075933.GB28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20080727075933.GB28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Al Viro Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:59:33 +0100 > Piss-poor sysctl registration API strikes again, film at 11... > What we really need is _pathname_ required to be present in > already registered table, so that kernel could warn about bad > order. That's the next target for sysctl stuff (and generally > saner and more explicit order of initialization of ipv[46] > internals wouldn't hurt either). > > For the time being, here are full fixups required by ..._rotable() > stuff; we make per-net sysctl sets descendents of "ro" one and > make sure that sufficient skeleton is there before we start registering > per-net sysctls. > > Signed-off-by: Al Viro Applied, thanks Al.