linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm2

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Message-ID: <m1wsw3xtpj.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:03:36 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm2

Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com> writes:

> ...
>
>> +sysctl-core-stop-using-the-unnecessary-ctl_table-typedef.patch
>> +sysctl-factor-out-sysctl_data.patch
>> +sysctl-error-on-bad-sysctl-tables.patch
>> +sysctl-update-sysctl_check_table.patch
>> +sysct-mqueue-remove-the-binary-sysctl-numbers.patch
>> +sysctl-remove-binary-sysctl-support-where-it-clearly-doesnt-work.patch
>> +sysctl-fix-neighbour-table-sysctls.patch
>> +sysctl-ipv6-route-flushing-kill-binary-path.patch
>> +sysctl-remove-broken-sunrpc-debug-binary-sysctls.patch
>> +sysctl-x86_64-remove-unnecessary-binary-paths.patch
>> +sysctl-remove-broken-cdrom-binary-sysctls.patch
>> +sysctl-ipv4-remove-binary-sysctl-paths-where-they-are-broken.patch
>>
> +sysctl-remove-the-binary-interface-for-aio-nr-aio-max-nr-acpi_video_flags.patch
>> 
>>  sysctl cleanups
>> 
>
> ...
>
>
> Getting all this on boot :
>
> ...
>
> [ 484.984331] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/default/timeslice
> .7.3.-3.1 Missing strategy
> [ 484.984515] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/default/spintime .7.3.-3.2
> Missing strategy
> [ 485.001254] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices/Device ID
> probe .7.3.1.6.1 Directory with extra1
> [ 485.001472] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices/Device ID
> probe/timeslice .7.3.1.6.1.1 Missing strategy
> [ 485.042786] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices/Device ID
> probe .7.3.1.6.1 Directory with extra1
> [ 485.042962] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices/Device ID
> probe/timeslice .7.3.1.6.1.1 Missing strategy
> [ 485.083586] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/spintime .7.3.1.1
> Missing strategy
> [ 485.083731] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/base-addr
> .7.3.1.2 Missing strategy
> [ 485.083878] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/irq .7.3.1.3
> Missing strategy
> [ 485.084022] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/dma .7.3.1.4
> Missing strategy
> [ 485.084166] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/modes .7.3.1.5
> Missing strategy
> [ 485.084317] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices .7.3.1.6
> Directory with extra1
> [ 485.084470] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices/active
> .7.3.1.6.-3 Missing strategy
> [ 485.084653] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe
> .7.3.1.16 Missing strategy
> [ 485.084806] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe0
> .7.3.1.17 Missing strategy
> [ 485.084954] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe1
> .7.3.1.18 Missing strategy
> [ 485.085103] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe2
> .7.3.1.19 Missing strategy
> [ 485.085253] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe3
> .7.3.1.20 Missing strategy
> [ 485.114655] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices/lp
> .7.3.1.6.1 Directory with extra1
> [ 485.114856] sysctl table check failed:
> /dev/parport/parport0/devices/lp/timeslice .7.3.1.6.1.1 Missing strategy

Hmm.  Thanks it doesn't like I had the parport code enabled in my test kernel.
With a little luck it looks like we can just nuke the binary sysctl interface
here.  And get the /proc/sys interface working again.

Eric
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