Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> But it is good to remove bad interfaces, if we possibly can.
>
> It is worth making the attempt.  Does anyone know of anything which will
> break?  I fed NET_NEIGH_ANYCAST_DELAY at random into
> http://www.google.com/codesearch and came up with nothing...

My current policy is that since I could only find 5 real world linux
programs that even call sys_sysctl, that if I find a broken sysctl
binary interface I'm lazy and just remove it.  The only networking one
I know of is radvd.

Added to that I just pushed an autochecking sysctl patch to Andrew
that fails register_sysctl_table if the sysctl table is broken.  And
all of these showed up.  So some fix was needed or things would have
been even worse.

Eric

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