Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> There is one problem with that (aside of the fact that SNMP is
> misdesigned) - you are pushing the maintainance of this repository into
> the kernel. Good luck - and Richard will be the first to become, erm,
> unhappy, judging by his reaction on another such repository. Device
> numbers, that is...
>
That reaction is by and large irrational. I have maintained the Linux
device number (and name!) space for five years, and besides the fact
that it was made too small by design (an unfortunate limitation
inherited from Minix) it has worked just fine.
Oh, and the name space management is the harder part of the two to
maintain. You wouldn't know how poorly some submissions I get are
named.
> If there is a standard space for sysctls - fine, put it into the
> separate package that will happily live in userland and map the
> SNMP-mandated numbers to names. Everyone is happy - kernel doesn't have to
> care about this crap and people who _do_ care are ones who maintain the
> userland side of things. They are natural candidates for maintaining this
> repository, not the kernel team.
>
Doesn't matter -- someone needs to maintain it, and it doesn't have to
be the "kernel team". Within the LSB there has been suggested a Linux
Assigned Names and numbers Authority (LANA). I wouldn't mind being
LANA.
-hpa
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