The sysctl internal interface is horrible: if you don't #if
CONFIG_SYSCTL everywhere (yuk), you get much bloat, and *worse*,
register_sysctl_table() always "fails".
Lucky hardly anyone checks error returns anyway, eh?
Rusty.
--- linux-2.3.99-pre2-3/kernel/sysctl.c.~1~ Fri Mar 17 14:15:45 2000
+++ linux-2.3.99-pre2-3/kernel/sysctl.c Sun Mar 19 12:59:14 2000
@@ -1348,7 +1348,8 @@
struct ctl_table_header * register_sysctl_table(ctl_table * table,
int insert_at_head)
{
- return 0;
+ /* NULL would mean failure. */
+ return (struct ctl_table_header *)1;
}
void unregister_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table_header * table)
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