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Message-ID: <20070821104121.GA26598@elte.hu> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:41:21 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru> Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 * Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote: > Ok. I missed that. Duh. I just saw Andrews drop message. > > This looks like Alexey respun my patch, or else we were thinking on > parallel paths. Probably parallel given Alexey's dislike of using the > CTL_UNNUMBERED define. > > There are two remaining gotchas: > - The directories have impossible permissions (writeable). > > - The ctl_name for the kernel directory is inconsistent with > everything else. It should be CTL_KERN. thx, i've applied your patch to my tree. > I kind of feel bad about being so picky but the this code is the only > place in the kernel where I have seen us violate either of those > rules, and it is a lot easier to deal with things when they are > consistent. sure enough, i'm not opposed at all to fixing these issues. We should move your debug-sysctl-bugs patch upstream ASAP. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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