Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] prepare sysctls for containers

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:55:48PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 01:24 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > This is disgusting.  Please, don't pile more and more complexity into
> > sysctl_table - it's already choke-full of it and needs to be simplified,
> > not to grow more crap.
> 
> I don't completely disagree.  It certainly isn't the most elegant
> approach I've ever seen.
> 
> Any ideas on ways we could simplify it?  I was thinking that we could
> get rid of the .data member and allow access only via the mechanism I
> just introduced.  It would be pretty easy to make some macros to
> generate "simple" access functions for the existing global variables.

I'll resurrect the sysctl-cleanups tree and drop it on kernel.org tonight.
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