From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: ptb@inv.it.uc3m.es
Cc: linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sysctl in 2.6.24.2 excludes unapproved files from /proc/sys?
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:57:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31088.1204340252@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:12:05 +0100." <200803010112.m211C5h4027092@betty.it.uc3m.es>
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On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:12:05 +0100, "Peter T. Breuer" said:
> A change in 2.6.24.x kernel/sysctl.c seems to exclude exo-kernel drivers
> from using the /proc/sys/ interface:
>
> What's a person to do?
Umm.. as a wild guess? Maybe a patch to add entries to the sysctl_check_table
arrays for your sysctl?
They didn't spend their holiday just coming up with this to annoy you - the
checking found a *lot* of entries that were well and truly broken (in the
how-did-it-ever-not-panic sense)...
Yes, it does make it more difficult for out-of-tree modules to create a new
sysctl entry - which is probably just as well, given that there's sysfs and
debugfs and a whole lot of other options as well for userspace-kernel
interaction.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-01 1:12 sysctl in 2.6.24.2 excludes unapproved files from /proc/sys? Peter T. Breuer
2008-03-01 1:46 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-03-01 2:22 ` Peter T. Breuer
2008-03-01 10:50 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-03-01 9:37 ` Peter T. Breuer
2008-03-01 2:57 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
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