Re: [PATCH] sysctl.c: Change a .proc_handler = proc_dointvec to&proc_dointvec,

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Nov 15 2009 - 03:40:03 EST



* Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:11 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Am??rico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 05:52:05PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > >Seems to be a typo.
> > > Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
> > (Cc:-ed Eric who is running the sysctl tree these days)
> > Almost everywhere in the kernel we use the shorter version, so all of
> > sysctl.c should eventually change to that variant.
>
> It's closer to 50/50, but it's 1 vs 133 in that file.
>
> $ grep -Pr --include=*.[ch] '\.proc_handler\s*=\s*&\s*\w+' * | wc -l
> 339
>
> $ grep -Pr --include=*.[ch] '\.proc_handler\s*=\s*[^&]\s*\w+' * | wc -l
> 432

I did not mean this specific initialization method of proc_handler, i
meant pointers to functions in general.

Ingo
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