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

[Eric W. Biederman]

Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Has that happened yet?

I just looked and I didn't see anything up there.

Eric
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