Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753116AbYLHJ5b (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2008 04:57:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751566AbYLHJ5V (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2008 04:57:21 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43509 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751181AbYLHJ5U (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2008 04:57:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:57:21 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20081208.015721.27132571.davem@davemloft.net> To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: mitake@clustcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ktaka@clustcom.com Subject: Re: [RFC] New functions to manipulate registers for ethtool From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <59951.1228728372@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <58622.1228726903@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20081208.010634.247305010.davem@davemloft.net> <59951.1228728372@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 17 From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:26:12 -0500 > On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:06:34 PST, David Miller said: > > > That's an awful reason to have to two ways of doing the exact same > > thing from userspace. > > Which is why 'sysctl' and 'echo > /proc/sys/....' both exist, right? We're essentially getting rid of the former, so your sarcasm was poorly applied, sorry. -- 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/