linux-kernel - Re: + sysctl-add-proc_dointvec_unsigned-handler.patch added to -mm tree

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Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:48:04 +0800
From:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + sysctl-add-proc_dointvec_unsigned-handler.patch added to -mm tree

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:59:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> So... where did we end up with this discussion?
>>
>> There are four patches involved:
>
>> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/sysctl-add-proc_dointvec_unsigned-handler.patch
>> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/sysctl-use-proc_dointvec_unsigned-where-appropriate.patch
>
> This still sucks:
> * .extra2 aka max is ignored(!)
> * even if not ignored, API can't be used on array, because min and max
>  boundaries should match wrt length.
>

Andrew, I'm offline last days, sorry for late reply.

Alexey, I updated the patch, do you feel better?

-- 
Regards
dave

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