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Date:	Fri, 4 Mar 2011 23:21:54 +0800
From:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
To:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/05] use proc_dointvec_minmax to check boundaries while needed

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:41:59AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:58:20PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>> >> proc_dointvec doesn't check extra minmax params, use proc_dointvec_minmax
>> >> instead of proc_dointvec for cases need boundaries check.
>> >
>> > Is this patch needed, if you are basically changing it again in patches 3
>> > and 5?
>>
>> Sure if 3 and 5 is acked, if someone object them then this is good?
>
> Ok.  I guess I would have posted patches 2-4 first to get everyone's
> opinion.  Then if the reaction was negative, try with patch 1.
>
> Personally I don't see any problems with patches 2-4.  Then again I don't
> deal with sysctl that much, so I don't what rules there are in that area of
> code.

No problem, I will try resend 2-4 with first one merged, Thanks.
-- 
Regards
dave
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