Re: [PATCH 02/03]: sunrpc: make auth_hashtable_size param mode 0444

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On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 14:58 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:31 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > The auth_hashtable_size parameter shows up in
> > /sys/module/sunrpc/parameters with mode 0644. However the hashtables
> > are allocated when the module is loaded, and changing the parameter
> > afterwards doesn't do much. So make it read-only.
> 
> The above observation is only correct for AUTH_SYS. The reason for
> making the mode 0644 was to allow users to change the value after
> loading if they want to use RPCSEC_GSS.

Right, I can see that being useful. It's confusing though. It'd be more
clear if there was a seperate knob to tune just
rpcsec_auth_hashtable_size. Anyway, never mind then.

Mike.

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