From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753604AbZLSVSf (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:18:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753504AbZLSVSe (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:18:34 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:58269 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753324AbZLSVSe (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:18:34 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:18:31 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , ebiederm@xmission.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2] SYSCTL: Make bin_table not const Message-ID: <20091219211831.GA19716@basil.fritz.box> References: <20091219358.549678091@firstfloor.org> <20091219145832.A0424B158A@basil.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.