linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 03/17] sysctl extern cleanup

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Date:	Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:36:23 +0200
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 03/17] sysctl extern cleanup - binfmts

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:33:43PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:23:03PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> >> --- linux-2.6.32.orig/include/linux/binfmts.h
> >> +++ linux-2.6.32/include/linux/binfmts.h
> >> @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ struct pt_regs;
> >>  #ifdef __KERNEL__
> >>  #include <linux/list.h>
> >>
> >> +/* for sysctl */
> >
> > This comment is neither accurate nor needed. :^)
> 
> Thanks, sounds good, but the there's no other file use the three vars.
> 
> >
> > In fact master sysctl table always was a big mess, so slight mess
> > caused by extern declarations is fine.
> >
> >> +extern int core_uses_pid;
> >> +extern char *core_pattern;
> >> +extern unsigned int core_pipe_limit;

In fact coredump code should be moved out of fs/exec.c including headers,
so this movement is quite pointless.
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