On Saturday 01 September 2007 5:16:03 pm Andi Kleen wrote: > Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > A lot of embedded people like to configure /proc out of the kernel for > > space reasons. This would make that noticeably more painful. > > I had a patch for a sysctl_name(2) for this a long time ago. > If it was a serious issue that could be reintroduced. > > BTW sysctl(2) only needs to be quiet for a single sysctl used > by glibc. > > -Andi
Yeah, I found it: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/10/345 I think that if /proc/sys could be broken out as a separate filesystem, and it was small and simple, the embedded people would probably be happy. Is your patch significantly smaller than such a filesystem would be? (Keeping in mind that the smallest thing you can do is run from initramfs, and I think that's pulling in libfs already...) Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - 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/
