From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:58:24 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/24] treewide: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table Message-Id: <1382486304.2041.103.camel@joe-AO722> List-Id: References: <52670FF4.8070701@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52670FF4.8070701@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Daney Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, keyrings@linux-nfs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 16:53 -0700, David Daney wrote: > After all this work, why not go ahead and remove the typedef? That way > people won't add more users of this abomination. Hi David. The typedef can't be removed until all the uses are gone. I've sent this before as a single large patch as well as individual patches. treewide: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/22/600 RemoveTypedef: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/22/603