Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:47:14 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] handle module ref count on sysctl tables.
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:42:02 +0100
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 10:35 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > 
> > This patch fixes that by maintaining source compatibility via macro.
> > I am sure someone already thought of this, it just doesn't appear to
> > have made it in yet.
> 
> isn't it more consistent to give the sysctl table itself an .owner
> field?

yes, but that means changing more files.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger
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