Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933240AbXH3S6W (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:58:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932496AbXH3S6O (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:58:14 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:48209 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932357AbXH3S6O (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:58:14 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Rob Landley , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion. References: <46D4CC81.4060400@zytor.com> <200708301432.11516.rob@landley.net> <20070830183402.GA17084@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:57:29 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20070830183402.GA17084@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:34:02 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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: 774 Lines: 20 Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:32:11PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: >> (If sysctlfs wasn't part of proc, that would be less of an issue, but we need >> union mounts for that...) > > Not at all. all sysctls are under /proc/sys/ Yes. So all we really need to do is split them apart and do the nfs multiple mount thing to maintain backwards compatibility when mounting proc. The code is close enough to split apart now that it probably would not be to difficult to finish the job. Eric - 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/