Re: [trivial PATCH, updated] fs: clarify "dummy" member in struct inodes_stat_t

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

Stefan Richter wrote:
> On 30 May, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> Considering that we export this struct to usespace, I don't think
>>> renaming a member without a good reason is a good idea (but adding a
>>> comment makes sense).
> [...]
>> i thought i was submitting a fairly innocuous patch.  live and learn.
> 
> I've could have seen that it is defined outside #ifdef __KERNEL__.
> 
> 
> From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
> Subject: fs: clarify "dummy" member in struct inodes_stat_t

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ linux/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ extern int get_max_files(void);
>  struct inodes_stat_t {
>  	int nr_inodes;
>  	int nr_unused;
> -	int dummy[5];
> +	int dummy[5];		/* padding for sysctl ABI compatibility */
>  };
>  extern struct inodes_stat_t inodes_stat;
>  
> 


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~Randy
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