netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25 2/3]sysctl: prepare core tables to point to netns variables

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Message-Id: <20071208.001205.166185340.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:12:05 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...nvz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25 2/3]sysctl: prepare core tables to point to
 netns variables

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:10:49 +0300

> Some of ctl variables are going to be on the struct 
> net. Here's the way to adjust the ->data pointer on the
> ctl_table-s to point on the right variable.
> 
> Since some pointers still point on the global variables,
> I keep turning the write bits off on such tables.
> 
> This looks to become a common procedure for net sysctls,
> so later parts of this code may migrate to some more
> generic place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Applied, but please see if you can find a more pretty way to
do this, thanks.
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