On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 01:24 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> 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.
I don't completely disagree. It certainly isn't the most elegant
approach I've ever seen.
Any ideas on ways we could simplify it? I was thinking that we could
get rid of the .data member and allow access only via the mechanism I
just introduced. It would be pretty easy to make some macros to
generate "simple" access functions for the existing global variables.
-- Dave
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