From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com (mail-pa0-f53.google.com [209.85.220.53]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEE36B00DC for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:58:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id kq14so224194pab.12 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:58:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from psmtp.com ([74.125.245.132]) by mx.google.com with SMTP id ad7si166364pbd.328.2013.10.22.16.58.31 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:58:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1382486304.2041.103.camel@joe-AO722> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/24] treewide: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table From: Joe Perches Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:58:24 -0700 In-Reply-To: <52670FF4.8070701@gmail.com> References: <52670FF4.8070701@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org