Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] sysctl: Add flags to support min/max range clamping

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:53:40PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 02/27/2018 07:47 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 03:49:48PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> >> When minimum/maximum values are specified for a sysctl parameter in
> >> the ctl_table structure with proc_dointvec_minmax() handler,
> > an
> >
> >> update
> >> to that parameter will fail with error if the given value is outside
> >> of the required range.
> >>
> >> There are use cases where it may be better to clamp the value of
> >> the sysctl parameter to the given range without failing the update,
> >> especially if the users are not aware of the actual range limits.
> > Makes me wonder if we should add something which does let one query
> > for the ranges. Then scripts can fetch that as well.
> 
> That will actually be better than printing out the range in the dmesg
> log. However, I haven't figured out an easy way of doing that. If you
> have any suggestion, please let me know about it.

I think a macro that also adds yet another proc read-only entry with a postfix
"_range" with an internal handler which prints the range may suffice.

  Luis