Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751471AbWJRMNu (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:13:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751473AbWJRMNu (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:13:50 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:62852 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751471AbWJRMNt (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:13:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Undeprecate the sysctl system call From: Alan Cox To: Andi Kleen Cc: Cal Peake , Andrew Morton , Randy Dunlap , Jan Beulich , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <453519EE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20061017091901.7193312a.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <1161123096.5014.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061017150016.8dbad3c5.akpm@osdl.org> <1161169330.9363.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:15:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1161173741.9363.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 22 Ar Mer, 2006-10-18 am 13:33 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen: > You call that numerical name space neat? IMHO it was a totally bogus > idea. There is already a perfectly fine file system name space, why > add another one? The sysctl number space came first and when it appeared it was neat > Anyways, imho the right solution is to remove the numerical > sysctl infrastructure (including most of sysctl.h), but keep > sys_sysctl() with a small mapping table that maps the few > numerical sysctls (mostly KERN_VERSION) that are actually used to > path names internally. The rest should be ENOSYS. More work for less compatibility, that doesn't sound very clever. Alan - 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/