netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/19] net: Sysctl simplifications and enhancements

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Message-Id: <20120420.212421.411640492608879760.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:24:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...allels.com
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, serge@...lyn.com,
	gaofeng@...fujitsu.com, pablo@...filter.org, shemminger@...tta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/19] net: Sysctl simplifications and
 enhancements

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:45:52 +0400

> On 04/20/2012 03:17 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> Summary:
>> - Kill approximately 400 lines of code
>> - Allow all networking sysctls with just CAP_NET_ADMIN
>> - Hide all networking sysctls that don't apply to your current network namespace.
>> - Uniformly register flat sysctl tables not sysctl tables with .child entries
>> - Readable string paths for registering sysctls
>> 
>> Eric W. Biederman (19):
>>       net: Implement register_net_sysctl.
>>       net sysctl:  Register an empty /proc/sys/net
>>       net sysctl: Initialize the network sysctls sooner to avoid problems.
>>       net: Kill register_sysctl_rotable
>>       net: Move all of the network sysctls without a namespace into init_net.
>>       net core: Remove unneded creation of an empty  net/core sysctl directory
>>       net ipv6: Remove unneded registration of an empty net/ipv6/neigh
>>       net ipv4: Remove the unneeded registration of an empty net/ipv4/neigh
>>       net ax25: Simplify and cleanup the ax25 sysctl handling.
>>       net llc: Don't use sysctl tables with .child entries.
>>       net ipv6: Don't use sysctl tables with .child entries.
>>       net neighbour:  Convert to use register_net_sysctl
>>       net decnet:  Convert to use register_net_sysctl
>>       net ipv6:  Convert addrconf to use register_net_sysctl
>>       net ipv4:  Convert devinet to use register_net_sysctl
>>       net: Convert nf_conntrack_proto to use register_net_sysctl
>>       net: Convert all sysctl registrations to register_net_sysctl
>>       net: Delete all remaining instances of ctl_path
>>       net: Remove register_net_sysctl_table
> 
> After resolving issues with Eric
> 
> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>

Series applied, thanks everyone.
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