On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:52:49PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> Right now, sysctls can only deal with global variables. This
> patch makes them a _little_ more flexible by allowing there to
> be an accessor function to get at the variable being changed,
> instead of it being global.
>
> This allows the sysctls to be backed by variables that are,
> for instance, dynamically allocated and not available at
> compile-time.
>
> This also provides a very simple mechanism to take things that
> are currently global and containerize them.
>
This is disgusting. Please, don't pile more and more complexity into
sysctl_table - it's already choke-full of it and needs to be simplified,
not to grow more crap.
NAK.
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