Re: [PATCH v2] remove no longer use of pdflush interface

[Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:31:12AM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>
>If there are many users than a self made print once is worth it
>we can use the ctl_table->data pointer for this, some thing like:
>
>int nr_pdflush_was_printed;
>
>@@ -1095,11 +1095,9 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
> 		.extra1		= &zero,
> 	},
> 	{
>-		.procname	= "nr_pdflush_threads",
>-		.data		= &nr_pdflush_threads,
>-		.maxlen		= sizeof nr_pdflush_threads,
>-		.mode		= 0444 /* read-only*/,
>-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
>+		.data		= &nr_pdflush_was_printed,
>+		.procname       = "nr_pdflush_threads",
>+		.mode           = 0444 /* read-only */,
>+		.proc_handler   = proc_obsolete,
> 	},
>
>
>+/* notice associated proc deprecated */
>+int proc_deprecated(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
>+		    void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos, )
>+{
>+	if (*ctl_table->data) {
>+		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s exported in /proc is deprecated\n",
>+			table->procname);
>+		*ctl_table->data = 0;
>+	}
>+	return -ENOSYS;
>+}

But this time you add another variable nr_pdflush_was_printed. 
So remove variable nr_pdflush_threads does not make sense.