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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Am??rico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl.c: Change a .proc_handler = proc_dointvec to &proc_dointvec,
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:11:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091115081126.GD15432@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091115065958.GA2459@hack>


* Am??rico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 05:52:05PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> >Seems to be a typo.
> >
> 
> Well, in this case, proc_dointvec == &proc_dointvec,
> both of them are the same function pointer.
> 
> But yes, &proc_dointvec looks more readable.
> 
> >Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> 
> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

(Cc:-ed Eric who is running the sysctl tree these days)

Almost everywhere in the kernel we use the shorter version, so all of 
sysctl.c should eventually change to that variant.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-15  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-15  1:52 [PATCH] sysctl.c: Change a .proc_handler = proc_dointvec to &proc_dointvec, Joe Perches
2009-11-15  6:59 ` Américo Wang
2009-11-15  8:11   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-11-15  8:28     ` Joe Perches
2009-11-15  8:39       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-15 10:04         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-15 10:33           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-15 12:29             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-15 13:57               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-15 14:14                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-15 17:31             ` Joe Perches
2009-11-15 18:20               ` Julia Lawall
2009-11-15 19:23                 ` Joe Perches
2009-11-15 20:40                   ` Julia Lawall
2009-11-15 20:53                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-15 22:54                       ` Julia Lawall
2009-11-15 21:13                     ` Joe Perches
2009-11-15 21:34                       ` Julia Lawall

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