On Sunday 26 November 2006 20:38, you wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 07:11:48PM +0000, David Johnson wrote: > > > > Is there an accepted way of setting sysctl values within the kernel (I > > can't seem to find any other module doing this), > > Yes. Next in-kernel module changing sysctls will do it via > > stop_a_enabled = 1; > console_loglevel = 8; > > (be sure, variables in question are EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed) >
Bah, I never thought it would be that simple! > > > Would it perhaps be better to instead create a sysfs node and let a > > userspace daemon worry about setting the sysctl values? > > Now _this_ is silly. sysctls already live in /proc/sys/, so you can open(2) > /proc/sys/kernel/printk and write(2) to it. OK, I'll give that a miss then ;-) Thanks for your help! David. - 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/
