On 7/21/07, Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> wrote:
Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> writes:
>
> That's separate patch but CTL_UNNUMBERED must die, because it's totally
> unneeded. If you don't want sysctl(2) interface just SKIP ->ctl_name
> initialization and save one line for something useful.
As for the 9p code it doesn't seem to need or want a real binary
interface. The 9p debug code picking of a semi-random number and not
patching it into sysctl.h like it should for a binary interface is
an implementation bug, and a maintenance problem.
Now that -rc1 is out, lets talk a bit more about this. Lucho can you
provide some level of justification of why you went for a sysctl
interface versus something directly accessible within the file system
-- that would seem more on-par with the 9p philosophy.
Perhaps its time for a general cleanup of the debug_level stuff -- it
was always ugly to have it as a global, but there was just no clear
way to have the session structure available everywhere we use it.
-eric
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