On Saturday 01 September 2007 5:16:03 pm Andi Kleen wrote:Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:A lot of embedded people like to configure /proc out of the kernel forI had a patch for a sysctl_name(2) for this a long time ago.
space reasons. This would make that noticeably more painful.
If it was a serious issue that could be reintroduced.
BTW sysctl(2) only needs to be quiet for a single sysctl used
by glibc.
-Andi
Yeah, I found it:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/10/345
I think that if /proc/sys could be broken out as a separate filesystem, and it was small and simple, the embedded people would probably be happy. Is your patch significantly smaller than such a filesystem would be? (Keeping in mind that the smallest thing you can do is run from initramfs, and I think that's pulling in libfs already...)