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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-01-21 10:26:26 -0800
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-01-24 16:37:55 -0800
commit6e9d5164153ad6539edd31e7afb02a3e79124cad (patch)
treece6cb28dca49f68cc6236dc70a71ecf93593159f /include/linux/sysctl.h
parentf05e53a7fbb28c951c0c8cf3963fa8019ae1d4d3 (diff)
sysctl: Add support for register sysctl tables with a normal cstring path.
Make __register_sysctl_table the core sysctl registration operation and make it take a char * string as path. Now that binary paths have been banished into the real of backwards compatibility in kernel/binary_sysctl.c where they can be safely ignored there is no longer a need to use struct ctl_path to represent path names when registering ctl_tables. Start the transition to using normal char * strings to represent pathnames when registering sysctl tables. Normal strings are easier to deal with both in the internal sysctl implementation and for programmers registering sysctl tables. __register_sysctl_paths is turned into a backwards compatibility wrapper that converts a ctl_path array into a normal char * string. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sysctl.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysctl.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 43c36acdb628..a514e0f6056d 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -1073,6 +1073,9 @@ extern void setup_sysctl_set(struct ctl_table_set *p,
extern void retire_sysctl_set(struct ctl_table_set *set);
void register_sysctl_root(struct ctl_table_root *root);
+struct ctl_table_header *__register_sysctl_table(
+ struct ctl_table_root *root, struct nsproxy *namespaces,
+ const char *path, struct ctl_table *table);
struct ctl_table_header *__register_sysctl_paths(
struct ctl_table_root *root, struct nsproxy *namespaces,
const struct ctl_path *path, struct ctl_table *table);