linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] sysctl: Enable IA64 "ignore-unaligned-usertrap" to be used cross-arch

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Message-ID: <876236ul01.fsf@xmission.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:03:42 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
Cc:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sysctl: Enable IA64 "ignore-unaligned-usertrap" to be used cross-arch

Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com> writes:

> Ok. Queued for 3.9 merge window.  It should show up in linux-next in
> the next day or two.  We'll see if anyone complains about the name
> SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN (every time I touch the Kconfig
> bits it seems that there is some other, better way that we do this
> now).

The other semi-sane way I could see to do this would be to break the
code out of kernel/sysctl.c into it's own sysctl table and have the
arches that want this sysctl just register it themselves.

Shrug.  It probably isn't worth the effor right now.

Eric
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