Re: [PATCH v2] sysctl: Enable IA64 "ignore-unaligned-usertrap" to be used cross-arch

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Wed Jan 09 2013 - 16:03:51 EST


Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Ok. Queued for 3.9 merge window. It should show up in linux-next in
> the next day or two. We'll see if anyone complains about the name
> SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN (every time I touch the Kconfig
> bits it seems that there is some other, better way that we do this
> now).

The other semi-sane way I could see to do this would be to break the
code out of kernel/sysctl.c into it's own sysctl table and have the
arches that want this sysctl just register it themselves.

Shrug. It probably isn't worth the effor right now.

Eric
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