Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932718AbXIAWQS (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:16:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932187AbXIAWQH (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:16:07 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:45544 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932276AbXIAWQF (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:16:05 -0400 To: Rob Landley Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Eric W. Biederman" , Christoph Hellwig , 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> From: Andi Kleen Date: 02 Sep 2007 00:16:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200708301432.11516.rob@landley.net> 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: 619 Lines: 12 Rob Landley writes: > > A lot of embedded people like to configure /proc out of the kernel for space > reasons. This would make that noticeably more painful. I had a patch for a sysctl_name(2) for this a long time ago. If it was a serious issue that could be reintroduced. BTW sysctl(2) only needs to be quiet for a single sysctl used by glibc. -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/