Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755569Ab1EBD0n (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 23:26:43 -0400 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:51166 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752040Ab1EBD0m (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 23:26:42 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Lucian Adrian Grijincu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan , Octavian Purdila , "David S . Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/69] faster tree-based sysctl implementation References: <1304213799-10257-1-git-send-email-lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 20:26:37 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Lucian Adrian Grijincu's message of "Mon, 2 May 2011 01:34:19 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in01.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=98.207.153.68;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX19VDH/9N6fUlg+wVWj4Pgzw0P/WWrnoTg0= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.153.68 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in01.mta.xmission.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 19 Lucian Adrian Grijincu writes: >> For long term maintainability and comprehensibility I think moving >> sysctl in the direction of a normal filesystem makes a lot of sense. > > Ok, I agree that a later redesign of sysctl would suffer if there > would be a mess regarding registration/unregistration of directories > and no ownership information/enforcement. I'll see how this can be > addressed in the next respin of this series. Thanks. 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/