Bug 974873

Summary:	rfe: sysctl flag to reset option to default
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Patterson <jamespatterson>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	fedora, gansalmon, itamar, jcapik, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description James Patterson 2013-06-16 21:24:44 UTC

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It would be useful to have an option for sysctl to list or set the
default value for a given key.

I've asked upstream if they could implement this, but they can't until they have a way of asking the kernel what the default was.

Should I move this to component kernel, or is there a better place to request this?

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Comment 1 Jaromír Cápík 2013-06-19 12:42:16 UTC

Hello James.

I'm one of the upstream members and I've read your message sent to the upstream mailing list. This is definitely a feature request for kernel. It needs to support a way of obtaining the default values. Like Craig has said, hardcoding the values somewhere or providing a file holding a table of default values is absolutely unreal, since the default values can be different for each kernel and can depend on the kernel configuration.

I'm changing the component to kernel and let's see what happens.

Regards,
Jaromir.

Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2013-09-16 12:49:22 UTC

You should probably make an RFE on the upstream kernel mailing list.