[PATCH 1/4] sysctl: Add register_sysctl_paths function

2007-11-29 Thread Eric W. Biederman
There are a number of modules that register a sysctl table somewhere deeply nested in the sysctl hierarchy, such as fs/nfs, fs/xfs, dev/cdrom, etc. They all specify several dummy ctl_tables for the path name. This patch implements register_sysctl_path that takes an additional path name, and

[PATCH 1/4] sysctl: Add register_sysctl_paths function

2007-11-29 Thread Eric W. Biederman
There are a number of modules that register a sysctl table somewhere deeply nested in the sysctl hierarchy, such as fs/nfs, fs/xfs, dev/cdrom, etc. They all specify several dummy ctl_tables for the path name. This patch implements register_sysctl_path that takes an additional path name, and