Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756246AbXIBIpH (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:45:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752842AbXIBIo4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:44:56 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:56515 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754510AbXIBIoz (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:44:55 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion. Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 03:44:51 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Eric W. Biederman" , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200708301432.11516.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709020344.51437.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1190 Lines: 31 On Saturday 01 September 2007 5:16:03 pm Andi Kleen wrote: > 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 Yeah, I found it: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/10/345 I think that if /proc/sys could be broken out as a separate filesystem, and it was small and simple, the embedded people would probably be happy. Is your patch significantly smaller than such a filesystem would be? (Keeping in mind that the smallest thing you can do is run from initramfs, and I think that's pulling in libfs already...) Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - 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/