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From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux-2.5.8-pre1 fs/dquot
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 17:50:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CAC764C.2010404@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0204041142240.22660-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> 
> 
>>Looking further through the pre patch I have found the following:
>>
>>diff -Nru a/fs/dquot.c b/fs/dquot.c
>>--- a/fs/dquot.c	Wed Apr  3 17:11:14 2002
>>+++ b/fs/dquot.c	Wed Apr  3 17:11:14 2002
>>...
>>+static ctl_table fs_table[] = {
>>+ 
>>{FS_NRDQUOT, "dquot-nr", &nr_dquots, 2*sizeof(int),
>>+ 
>>  0444, NULL, &proc_dointvec},
>>+ 
>>{},
>>+};
>>
>>
>>What the heck is "dquot-nr"?
> 
> 
> The name that used to be there in 2.5.7 and before.  Check kernel/sysctl.c -
> this stuff had been moved from there verbatim.

Yes of course. My point is: Those names are unsystematical and
ugly *alltogether*. However it's of course not worth the effort to
change them right now...



  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-04 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-04  1:22 Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Linus Torvalds
2002-04-04  3:46 ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Larry McVoy
2002-04-04  3:54   ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Larry McVoy
2002-04-04 20:12     ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Linus Torvalds
2002-04-04 20:18       ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Larry McVoy
2002-04-04 20:34       ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Dave Jones
2002-04-06 15:36         ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 David Woodhouse
2002-04-06 17:05           ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Larry McVoy
2002-04-06 17:25             ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 David Woodhouse
2002-04-06 17:30               ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Larry McVoy
2002-04-06 19:14                 ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 David Woodhouse
2002-04-04 10:19 ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Martin Dalecki
2002-04-04 11:45   ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Tim Schmielau
2002-04-04 10:49     ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Martin Dalecki
2002-04-05  6:02       ` [patch] Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Tim Schmielau
2002-04-04 12:05     ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Dave Jones
2002-04-04 15:45   ` IDE/SUPPORT_VLB_SYNC in 2.5.x Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-04 14:52     ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-05  8:26       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-04 11:55 ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 fs/dquot Martin Dalecki
2002-04-04 16:43   ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-04 15:50     ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2002-04-04 22:52 ` Linux-2.5.8-pre1 Mike Fedyk

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