Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759331AbXIBUAp (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 16:00:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751289AbXIBUAi (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 16:00:38 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:35775 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750758AbXIBUAh (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 16:00:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:00:10 +0100 From: Al Viro To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Rob Landley , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion. Message-ID: <20070902200010.GS21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <200709020344.51437.rob@landley.net> <46DA7A4C.6080501@zytor.com> <200709020605.00782.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 625 Lines: 13 On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:56:33PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > - I think all that is left is superblock handling and some backward > compatibility magic. (Using the follow_link trick to automatically > mount /proc/sys) NAK. Let's explicitly mount this stuff in init scripts; it won't break on older kernels and there's no excuse for that kind of kludges in the kernel. - 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/