Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] ipc: Remove extra1 field abuse to pass ipc namespace

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Apr 22 2022 - 17:59:09 EST


On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 5:53 AM Alexey Gladkov <legion@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes, Linus, these changes are not the refactoring you were talking
> about, but I plan to try to do such a refactoring in the my next
> patchset.

Heh. Ok, I'm not saying these patches are pretty, and looking up the
namespace thing is a bit subtle, but it's certainly prettier than the
existing odd "create a new ctl_table entry because of field abuse".

So this certainly looks like an improvement from a quick look.

Linus