Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes:
>
> If you're going to add a new api, you might as well go with the sysctl-by-name 
> patch above, which looks reasonably small and simple to me from a very quick 
> glance at a 2.6.0-era patch.
>
> The advantage of breaking /proc/sys into a separate filesystem doesn't 
> introduce a new API (although possibly a new line in the init scripts), so 
> existing software doesn't have to change to use it, which is good.  It 
> increases orthogonality and granularity, which embedded guys like me are 
> generally in favor of. :)

- I think sysctlfs makes sense.
- I think all that is left is superblock handling and some backward
  compatibility magic. (Using the follow_link trick to automatically
  mount /proc/sys)

All of the rest of the code pretty much lives in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
already.

I have some other priorities to deal with first but if no one does the
work before I get there I will probably implement that eventually.

Eric