Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760700AbXHJCNb (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 22:13:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753354AbXHJCNT (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 22:13:19 -0400 Received: from yue.linux-ipv6.org ([203.178.140.15]:54246 "EHLO yue.st-paulia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751585AbXHJCNS (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 22:13:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:14:20 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20070810.111420.29442251.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> To: davem@davemloft.net Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org, adobriyan@sw.ru, netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls. From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCNUhGIzFRTEAbKEI=?= In-Reply-To: <20070809.184921.11594412.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070810.104710.28739250.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> <20070809.184921.11594412.davem@davemloft.net> Organization: USAGI/WIDE Project X-URL: http://www.yoshifuji.org/%7Ehideaki/ X-Fingerprint: 9022 65EB 1ECF 3AD1 0BDF 80D8 4807 F894 E062 0EEA X-PGP-Key-URL: http://www.yoshifuji.org/%7Ehideaki/hideaki@yoshifuji.org.asc X-Face: "5$Al-.M>NJ%a'@hhZdQm:."qn~PA^gq4o*>iCFToq*bAi#4FRtx}enhuQKz7fNqQz\BYU] $~O_5m-9'}MIs`XGwIEscw;e5b>n"B_?j/AkL~i/MEaZBLP X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.1 (AOI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 885 Lines: 23 In article <20070809.184921.11594412.davem@davemloft.net> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:49:21 -0700 (PDT)), David Miller says: > From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:47:10 +0900 (JST) > > > I disagree. It is bad to remove existing interface. > > Ditto for other patches. > > I think perhaps you misunderstand what Eric is doing. > > sys_sysctl() isn't working properly for these cases and it is both a > deprecated interface and not worth the pain of adding support > in these cases. Would you explain why it does not work properly for those cases? --yoshfuji - 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/