Re: [PATCH] Allow Kconfig to set default mmap_min_addr protection

On Dec 21 2007 14:35, Greg KH wrote:
>> >> >I guess it could be, but the input for /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr is
>> >> >base 10 as well
>> >> 
>> >> sysfs is autobase, i.e. echo "0xb000" >/sys/foo will Do The Right Thing.
>> >
>> >yes but if you cat  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr, it returns in base 10.
>> 
>> sysfs should probably be tuned to output it in a preferred base.
>
>Again, this is sysctl, not sysfs.  two very different things...
>
Argh... :)  Just shows that /proc is the wrong place for system variables.

Well, module_params(integer) are autobase, and that's all I needed so 
far :-D
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