Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:09:10 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] Deprecate sysctl(2), add sysctl_name |
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Also I doubt sysctls are that commonly called if they are even used.
It looks like kudzu (also known as "the RH hardware hack from h*ll") actually messes with "sysctl 1 23", aka "/proc/sys/kernel/printk".
Why it thinks it should mess with it I don't know. I dislike how the distributions tend to shut off kernel messages that can tell you when something is seriously wrong, making the error cases be silent hangs instead of having some indication of why something went wrong.. I wonder if that's what kudzu is doing - shutting the kernel up before it starts doing things that it should never do.
Anyway, having one
kudzu: numerical sysctl 1 23 is obsolete.
during bootup seems to be a fairly non-irritating thing, and hopefully the kudzu people can just stop doing whatever they are doing.
Linus
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