linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/18] sysctl extern cleanup

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Message-ID: <20100220204418.GB3997@feather>
Date:	Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:44:19 -0800
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
Cc:	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	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 10/18] sysctl extern cleanup - rcu

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:16:20PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be move to their own head file,
> and then include them in relavant .c files.
> 
> Move rcutorture_runnable extern declaration to linux/rcupdate.h
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>

Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>

That said, this could probably become something other than a sysctl
easily enough; debugfs or writable module parameters come to mind.

- Josh Triplett
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