On 7 Jan 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> The nice thing of giving up the sysctl numbers is that it would
> be possible to use some ELF section based scheme for declaring sysctl
> variables in nice wrapper macros. You could get a sysctl variable with
> a single declaration. This would make them a lot more easy. Would you
> accept a patch for that?
Show me the patch, and I can consider it. It would certainly be nicer than
what it is now (the include/linux/sysctl.h file is EVIL, and a perfect
example of the kind of idiotic brokenness we used to have in /proc before
it was cleaned up).
Linus
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