Re: How to use Michael Cohen's kernel

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

> The question is, is there anything sacred about the number 11? Can't I
> just assign it any unused number? Or am I going to make my system go up
> in smoke?

In theory the numbers are an fixed/published ABI (arguments of the sysctl(2) 
system call). In practice near everybody uses /proc/sys/ and names 
instead of specifying integer numbers, so it's usually not a problem
to change the number of an sysctl arbitarily. In fact the numbering
may go away in 2.5, because most people agree it was a mistake to support
numbers instead of names only.

-Andi