Eric Lee / smarc-fsl-linux-kernel

15 Feb, 2007

2 commits

  • 0b4d41471   [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl ... Browse Code »

    The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
    sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is
    pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

    I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
    register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
    duplicate sysctl entries.

    So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
    the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
    enhancments harder.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
    Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Corey Minyard
    Cc: Neil Brown
    Cc: "John W. Linville"
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: Jan Kara
    Cc: Trond Myklebust
    Cc: Mark Fasheh
    Cc: David Chinner
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Patrick McHardy
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric W. Biederman
     
  • b402f06d6   [PATCH] sysctl: x25: remove unnecessary insert_at_head from register_sysctl_table ... Browse Code »

    There has not been much maintenance on sysctl in years, and as a result is
    there is a lot to do to allow future interesting work to happen, and being
    ambitious I'm trying to do it all at once :)

    The patches in this series fall into several general categories.

    - Removal of useless attempts to override the standard sysctls

    - Registers of sysctl numbers in sysctl.h so someone else does not use
    the magic number and conflict.

    - C99 conversions so it becomes possible to change the layout of
    struct ctl_table without breaking everything.

    - Removal of useless claims of module ownership, in the proc dir entries

    - Removal of sys_sysctl support where people had used conflicting sysctl
    numbers. Trying to break glibc or other applications by changing the
    ABI is not cool. 9 instances of this in the kernel seems a little
    extreme.

    - General enhancements when I got the junk I could see out.

    This patch:

    Since x25 uses unique binary numbers inserting yourself at the head of the
    search list for sysctls so you can override already registered sysctls is
    pointless.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric W. Biederman
     

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  • 1da177e4c   Linux-2.6.12-rc2 ... Browse Code »

    Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds