Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.

[Eric W. Biederman]

Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:32:11PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>> (If sysctlfs wasn't part of proc, that would be less of an issue, but we need
>> union mounts for that...)
>
> Not at all.  all sysctls are under /proc/sys/

Yes.  So all we really need to do is split them apart and do the nfs multiple
mount thing to maintain backwards compatibility when mounting proc.

The code is close enough to split apart now that it probably would not be
to difficult to finish the job.

Eric
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