linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysctl.c: Change a .proc_handler = proc_dointvec to &proc

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Date:	Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:39:51 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Am??rico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl.c: Change a .proc_handler = proc_dointvec to
 &proc_dointvec,


* Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:11 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Am??rico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 05:52:05PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > >Seems to be a typo.
> > > Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> > (Cc:-ed Eric who is running the sysctl tree these days)
> > Almost everywhere in the kernel we use the shorter version, so all of 
> > sysctl.c should eventually change to that variant.
> 
> It's closer to 50/50, but it's 1 vs 133 in that file.
> 
> $ grep -Pr --include=*.[ch] '\.proc_handler\s*=\s*&\s*\w+' * | wc -l
> 339
> 
> $ grep -Pr --include=*.[ch] '\.proc_handler\s*=\s*[^&]\s*\w+' * | wc -l
> 432

I did not mean this specific initialization method of proc_handler, i 
meant pointers to functions in general.

	Ingo
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