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

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Date:	Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:33:43 +0800
From:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...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 10:28 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;
>



-- 
Regards
dave
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