linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: remove CTL

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Date:	Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:44:48 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: remove CTL_UNNUMBERED

Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru> writes:

> I found why first version should be rejected, and, no, it is not
> documentation updates. Here is version 2:

I care about the documentation because it is the best thing
we have for enforcing sane sysctl table usage.

After looking at the problem.  While I can't remove  ctl_name
from the sysctl tables easily.  What I can do is check at
registration time if a sysctl table is sane, and print
an error message and fail to register that table if it has problems.

Once that is in place I will have no problems killing CTL_UNNUMBERED.

Eric
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