Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752341AbZKIAfu (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:35:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751501AbZKIAft (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:35:49 -0500 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:40533 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751474AbZKIAft (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:35:49 -0500 To: Tetsuo Handa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] Removal of binary sysctl support References: <200911082215.HGJ57827.SJOVFFOHMOLFQt@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <200911090012.nA90CF2i016994@www262.sakura.ne.jp> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:35:51 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200911090012.nA90CF2i016994@www262.sakura.ne.jp> (Tetsuo Handa's message of "Mon\, 09 Nov 2009 09\:12\:15 +0900") 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: 732 Lines: 20 Tetsuo Handa writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> There has been a gradual transition from the assumption that the table ends with >> !ctl_name to the assumption that procname == NULL. There is no sysctl entry >> with a valid ctl_name without a valid procname. > > I see. Then, please add below one to your patchset. Applied thanks. Now that sysctl is all based on /proc/sys I hope someday we can kill sysctl_perm. As it seems redundant. 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/