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

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed May 30 2007 - 15:21:31 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fs: clarify "dummy" member in struct inodes_stat_t

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

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
--- 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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