* Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/14/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > #define PROCNAME_PML "sys/kernel/preempt_max_latency"
> >
> > static __init int latency_fs_init(void)
> > {
> > struct proc_dir_entry *entry;
> >
> > if (!(entry = create_proc_entry(PROCNAME_PML, 0644, NULL)))
> > printk("latency_fs_init(): can't create %s\n",
> >PROCNAME_PML);
> >
> > with your change that broke because beyond /proc/sys/ there are no
> > real proc entries anymore, there's no de->subdir directory for
> > xlate_proc_name() to find. While the latency tracer isnt upstream,
> > this change in semantics does not seem to be intended (the changelog
> > is certainly silent about it).
>
> Use register_sysctl_table() for sysctls.
yes - i just wanted to point out the incompatibility and subtle breakage
that this change caused. I'll now have to convert the current code over
to sysctl_table, which isnt that hard but not trivial either, and i
certainly could make use that time for other purposes.
Ingo
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