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<title>[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl</title>
<updated>2007-02-14T16:09:59+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2007-02-14T08:34:09+00:00</published>
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The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@muc.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Corey Minyard &lt;minyard@acm.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "John W. Linville" &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Chinner &lt;dgc@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@muc.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Corey Minyard &lt;minyard@acm.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "John W. Linville" &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Chinner &lt;dgc@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: automatic sysctl registation for conntrack protocols</title>
<updated>2006-12-03T05:31:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2006-11-29T01:35:17+00:00</published>
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Add helper functions for sysctl registration with optional instantiating
of common path elements (like net/netfilter) and use it for support for
automatic registation of conntrack protocol sysctls.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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Add helper functions for sysctl registration with optional instantiating
of common path elements (like net/netfilter) and use it for support for
automatic registation of conntrack protocol sysctls.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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