Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 2/9] sysctl for runtime-control of lateralmutex stealing

From: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
Date: Mon Feb 25 2008 - 18:40:50 EST



On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:00 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > > index c913d48..c24c53d 100644
> > > > --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> > > > +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> > > > @@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ extern struct ctl_table inotify_table[];
> > > > int sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
> > > > #endif
> > > >
> > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_RTLOCK_LATERAL_STEAL
> > > > +extern int rtmutex_lateral_steal;
> > > > +#endif
> > > > +
> > >
> > > Try checkpatch.
> >
> > I have that as part of quilt refresh, and it returns:
> >
> > Your patch has no obvious style problems and is ready for
> > submission.
>
> Sorry. Anyway, there should not be externs in .c files, so
>
> extern int rtmutex_lateral_steal;
>
> should go to header file.

Just for the record:

grep extern kernel/sysctl.c | wc -l
40

There is a whole slew here, that I agree could move elsewhere - maybe
into sysctl.h?

If no one objects, I'll make a patch to move them all?

Sven

> Pavel

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