Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266597AbTGKDFa (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:05:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269768AbTGKDF3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:05:29 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:42736 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266597AbTGKDF1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:05:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Deprecate sysctl(2), add sysctl_name From: Robert Love To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andi Kleen , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1057893842.5095.0.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 (1.4.0-2) Date: 10 Jul 2003 20:24:02 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 519 Lines: 18 On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 19:35, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I doubt there is any real reason to not just use the /proc interface, and > I dislike pre-emptive engineering. Agreed. Further, as someone working on embedded, I think requiring /proc is fine for this. Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/