linux-kernel - [RFC] [PATCH] sysctl for the latecomers

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Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:49:20 -0400
From:	Amit Gud <agud@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] [PATCH] sysctl for the latecomers

/etc/sysctl.conf values are of no use to kernel modules that are 
inserted after init scripts call sysctl for the values in /etc/sysctl.conf

For modules to use the values stored in the file /etc/sysctl.conf, 
sysctl kernel code can keep record of 'limited' values, for sysctl 
entries which haven't been registered yet. During registration, sysctl 
code can check against the stored values and call the appropriate 
strategy and proc_handler routines if a match is found.

Attached patch does just that. This patch is NOT tested and is just to 
get opinions, if something like this is a right way of addressing this 
problem.

Thanks,
AG
-- 
May the source be with you.
http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~gud

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