18 Sep, 2012

1 commit


21 Apr, 2012

2 commits

  • The sysctl core no longer natively understands sysctl tables with .child
    entries.

    Kill the intermediate tables and use register_net_sysctl directly to
    remove the need for compatibility code.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric W. Biederman
     
  • This makes it clearer which sysctls are relative to your current network
    namespace.

    This makes it a little less error prone by not exposing sysctls for the
    initial network namespace in other namespaces.

    This is the same way we handle all of our other network interfaces to
    userspace and I can't honestly remember why we didn't do this for
    sysctls right from the start.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric W. Biederman
     

12 Nov, 2009

1 commit

  • Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys
    all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy
    entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be
    revmoed.

    In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer
    take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not
    to pass one.

    Cc: "David Miller"
    Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI
    Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

    Eric W. Biederman
     

04 Nov, 2008

1 commit

  • I want to compile out proc_* and sysctl_* handlers totally and
    stub them to NULL depending on config options, however usage of &
    will prevent this, since taking adress of NULL pointer will break
    compilation.

    So, drop & in front of every ->proc_handler and every ->strategy
    handler, it was never needed in fact.

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Alexey Dobriyan
     

29 Jan, 2008

1 commit


15 Feb, 2007

2 commits

  • 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
     
  • The sysctl numbers used are unique so setting the insert_at_head flag serves
    no semantis purpose, and is just confusing.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric W. Biederman
     

11 Feb, 2007

1 commit


01 Jul, 2006

1 commit


22 Sep, 2005

2 commits