linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] missing bits of net-namespace / sysctl

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Date:	Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:41:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] missing bits of net-namespace / sysctl

From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:59:33 +0100

> Piss-poor sysctl registration API strikes again, film at 11...
> What we really need is _pathname_ required to be present in
> already registered table, so that kernel could warn about bad
> order.  That's the next target for sysctl stuff (and generally
> saner and more explicit order of initialization of ipv[46]
> internals wouldn't hurt either).
> 
> For the time being, here are full fixups required by ..._rotable()
> stuff; we make per-net sysctl sets descendents of "ro" one and
> make sure that sufficient skeleton is there before we start registering
> per-net sysctls.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Applied, thanks Al.
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