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Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> writes: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:55:48PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: >> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 01:24 +0000, Al Viro wrote: >> > This is disgusting. Please, don't pile more and more complexity into >> > sysctl_table - it's already choke-full of it and needs to be simplified, >> > not to grow more crap. >> >> I don't completely disagree. It certainly isn't the most elegant >> approach I've ever seen. >> >> Any ideas on ways we could simplify it? I was thinking that we could >> get rid of the .data member and allow access only via the mechanism I >> just introduced. It would be pretty easy to make some macros to >> generate "simple" access functions for the existing global variables. > > I'll resurrect the sysctl-cleanups tree and drop it on kernel.org tonight. Has that happened yet? I just looked and I didn't see anything up there. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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