Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759259AbZKFAst (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:48:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757983AbZKFAss (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:48:48 -0500 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:57748 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757855AbZKFAsr (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:48:47 -0500 To: Cc: , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu , Ralf Baechle , Kyle McMartin , Thibaut Varene , Carsten Otte , Christian Borntraeger , "David S. Miller" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] generic compat_sys_sysctl References: From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:48:48 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Thu\, 05 Nov 2009 16\:40\:19 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=76.21.114.89;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 76.21.114.89 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:26:12 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in02.mta.xmission.com); Unknown failure Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1310 Lines: 29 > I am in the process of cleaning up, and converting the binary sysctl > sysctl call into a wrapper on top of the text based proc/sys. > > A first step in that process is to introduce a generic > compat_sys_sysctl to reduce the number of places I have to touch. > The following patcheset is the start of my series for handling that. > > The only architecture specific changes should be replace the > current architecture name for it's 32bit compat syscall with > compat_sys_sysctl, and deleting the architectures private > 32bit compat syscall. The only requirement is that CONFIG_COMPAT > be set when you need compat_sys_sysctl. > > These patches should just work, but an eyeball from someone who is > familiar with the architecture specific details would be appreciated. > I have only tested the 32bit compat code on x86_64. I forgot to mention, my plan is to carry these patches in my tree until the next merge window opens. That way I will be able to build on top of them, without having to worry what happens if someone is slow to merge the patches. Eric -- 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/