Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:37:33 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.
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On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:00:10PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 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.

That would probably break near all init scripts out there.

Can't the file system not just be mounted with /proc together?

-Andi
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