From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760827AbYCAC5q (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:57:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750713AbYCAC5h (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:57:37 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:42535 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751307AbYCAC5g (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:57:36 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: ptb@inv.it.uc3m.es Cc: linux kernel Subject: Re: sysctl in 2.6.24.2 excludes unapproved files from /proc/sys? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:12:05 +0100." <200803010112.m211C5h4027092@betty.it.uc3m.es> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200803010112.m211C5h4027092@betty.it.uc3m.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1204340252_3290P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:57:32 -0500 Message-ID: <31088.1204340252@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1204340252_3290P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:12:05 +0100, "Peter T. Breuer" said: > A change in 2.6.24.x kernel/sysctl.c seems to exclude exo-kernel drivers > from using the /proc/sys/ interface: > > What's a person to do? Umm.. as a wild guess? Maybe a patch to add entries to the sysctl_check_table arrays for your sysctl? They didn't spend their holiday just coming up with this to annoy you - the checking found a *lot* of entries that were well and truly broken (in the how-did-it-ever-not-panic sense)... Yes, it does make it more difficult for out-of-tree modules to create a new sysctl entry - which is probably just as well, given that there's sysfs and debugfs and a whole lot of other options as well for userspace-kernel interaction. --==_Exmh_1204340252_3290P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHyMYccC3lWbTT17ARAnCTAKDJ8ojMtxVVI6FmPViyK8lKsyvWXgCg6O5H wzX83I8mzRj/iP5InMoGwgI= =+5Qu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1204340252_3290P--