On 3/24/20 7:20 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 09:45:40AM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote: >> Thanks Randy and Vlastimil for the comments. I really liked your >> approach Vlastimil, I agree that we have no reason to not have a generic >> sysctl setting via cmdline mechanism - I'll rework this patch removing >> the kernel parameter (same for other patch I just submitted). > > I've been thinking we'll likely want to have a big patch series that > removes all the old "duplicate" boot params and adds some kind of > "alias" mechanism. > > Vlastimil, have you happened to keep a list of other "redundant" boot > params you've noticed in the kernel? I bet there are a lot. :) Well, I found about 4 that mentioned sysctl in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt I suspect there will be more, but won't be trivial to identify them.
