Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751489AbWJRQWd (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:22:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751494AbWJRQWc (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:22:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:44678 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751489AbWJRQWb (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:22:31 -0400 To: Joe Korty Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.18-rt6 sysctl conflict References: <20061018132530.GA30767@tsunami.ccur.com> From: Andi Kleen Date: 18 Oct 2006 18:22:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20061018132530.GA30767@tsunami.ccur.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 607 Lines: 10 Joe Korty writes: > Repair conflict between 2.6.18 and preempt-rt's sysctl(2) addition. In general new sysctl shouldn't get any numbers at all. Just use 0 or so or 999. Distributions and other patches have mangled the numerical name so excessively that it is fairly useless for any newer numbers. I would suggest to just drop them. -Andi - 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/