net: Implement register_net_sysctl.

Right now all of the networking sysctl registrations are running in a
compatibiity mode.  The natvie sysctl registration api takes a cstring
for a path and a simple ctl_table.  Implement register_net_sysctl so
that we can register network sysctls without needing to use
compatiblity code in the sysctl core.

Switching from a ctl_path to a cstring results in less boiler plate
and denser code that is a little easier to read.

I would simply have changed the arguments to register_net_sysctl_table
instead of keeping two functions in parallel but gcc will allow a
ctl_path pointer to be passed to a char * pointer with only issuing a
warning resulting in completely incorrect code can be built.  Since I
have to change the function name I am taking advantage of the situation
to let both register_net_sysctl and register_net_sysctl_table live for a
short time in parallel which makes clean conversion patches a bit easier
to read and write.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h
index ee547c14981..446245e3ade 100644
--- a/include/net/net_namespace.h
+++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ extern struct ctl_table_header *register_net_sysctl_table(struct net *net,
 	const struct ctl_path *path, struct ctl_table *table);
 extern struct ctl_table_header *register_net_sysctl_rotable(
 	const struct ctl_path *path, struct ctl_table *table);
+extern struct ctl_table_header *register_net_sysctl(struct net *net,
+	const char *path, struct ctl_table *table);
 extern void unregister_net_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table_header *header);
 
 #endif /* __NET_NET_NAMESPACE_H */