netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Fix sysctl warnings about missing strategy

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Message-ID: <20071115011431.GA8325@verge.net.au>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:14:36 -0800
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, borntraeger@...ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, wensong@...ux-vs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Fix sysctl warnings about missing strategy

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:38:32AM +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote:

Hi Julian,

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Simon Horman wrote:

[snip]

> > As for the commented out entries. They are supposed to be exposed by
> > some other means - I believe the thinking was to comply with the don't
> > expose stuff in proc any more idea. Where is the best place to expose
> > this kind of stuff?
> 
> 	I assume /proc/sys is still valid place, only sysctl interface
> is scheduled for removal.

I'm happy to add them there, so long as that is a good place.

> So, as long as these entries are not
> accessible from sysctl it is safe to run without strategy handler but if
> values can be changed then we will need strategy handler to
> properly call update_defense_level() as done in proc_do_defense_mode()
> as proc_handler. There could be side effects if new mode is not applied.

I'm not sure what you are getting at there. I did write a stratergy
for update_defense_level(), but I didn't post it, as I thought that
it would not be needed if CTL_UNNUMBERED is used.

-- 
Horms, California Edition

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