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

[Eric W. Biederman]

Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:56:33PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> - I think all that is left is superblock handling and some backward
>>   compatibility magic. (Using the follow_link trick to automatically
>>   mount /proc/sys)
>
> NAK.  Let's explicitly mount this stuff in init scripts; it won't break
> on older kernels and there's no excuse for that kind of kludges in the
> kernel.

I don't much care.   But we do have the infrastructure for it in the
kernel and NFS uses it.  And it seems like a nice way to preserve user
space backwards compatibility, without making the code to nasty.

If we don't mind that bit of change that would make it harder to
upgrade a kernel I don't mind not doing it.  It just looks like a
elegant way to handle that implementation change.

Eric
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