Re: [PATCH v5 1/9] sysctl: Add flags to support min/max range clamping

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 02:13:42PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> When the CTL_FLAGS_CLAMP_RANGE flag is set in the ctl_table
> entry, any update from the userspace will be clamped to the given
> range without error if either the proc_dointvec_minmax() or the
> proc_douintvec_minmax() handlers is used.

I don't get it.  Why define a generic range flag when we can be mores specific and
you do that in your next patch. What's the point of this flag then?

  Luis