linux-kernel - Re: sysctl.c: add text telling people to use CTL

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Message-Id: <20070716113547.5a746fcc.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:35:47 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: sysctl.c: add text telling people to use CTL_UNNUMBERED

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:23:05 -0700
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:

> > +/*
> > + * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
> > + * Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
> > + */
> > +/*
> > + * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
> > + * Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
> > + */
> >  	{ .ctl_name = 0 }
> >  };
> 
> Are these comments above &  below doubled up for Emphasis??

hm, that could have been some late-night reject-fixing.

sysctl.c is (hopefully "was") the second worst source of rejects in the
tree.

PITA #1 is Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, but that is
fortunately amenable to the insert-it-at-a-random-position solution.

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