linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.

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Date:	Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:37:33 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:00:10PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:56:33PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > - I think all that is left is superblock handling and some backward
> >   compatibility magic. (Using the follow_link trick to automatically
> >   mount /proc/sys)
> 
> NAK.  Let's explicitly mount this stuff in init scripts; it won't break
> on older kernels and there's no excuse for that kind of kludges in the
> kernel.

That would probably break near all init scripts out there.

Can't the file system not just be mounted with /proc together?

-Andi
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