[PATCH 3/9] CodingStyle: advise on using "sysctl" in sysctl variables

[Alexey Dobriyan]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
index a4fbe45c3eb9..ac9c1dbe00b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
@@ -356,6 +356,10 @@ specification that mandates those terms. For new specifications
 translate specification usage of the terminology to the kernel coding
 standard where possible.
 
+Variables holding data exported via sysctl interface better have ``sysctl``
+somewhere in the name. This should remind developer that its value may change
+at any moment unsynchronized with the rest of the code.
+
 Typedefs
 --------
 
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