On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:01:14 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> > The binary interface for the cdrom sysctls can't possilby work. > So remove the binary sysctls and update the test for finding > out which sysctl table entry we are dealy with to use the procname > and not the ctl_name (which I am removing). NAK I've no problem with the basic idea of removing the names from user space, but you've just demonstrated with the patch below that it causes some quite revolting changes for the bad in code which previously was nicely done switch statements and is now a nest of string compares and inline code. There are very good reasons to have a cookie in the sysctl entry for internal use and which is private to the subsystem using the sysctl (ie not for sysctl() use and not neccessarily unique). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/