Re: [RFC PATCH 01/11] sysctl: make some functions unstatic to access by arch/lib

[Hajime Tazaki]

At Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:13:39 -0700,
Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 22:10 +0900, Hajime Tazaki wrote:
> > libos (arch/lib) emulates a sysctl-like interface by a function call of
> > userspace by enumerating sysctl tree from sysctl_table_root. It requires
> > to be publicly accessible to this symbol and related functions.
> []
> > diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
> []
> > @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static int namecmp(const char *name1, int len1, const char *name2, int len2)
> >  }
> >  
> >  /* Called under sysctl_lock */
> > -static struct ctl_table *find_entry(struct ctl_table_header **phead,
> > +struct ctl_table *find_entry(struct ctl_table_header **phead,
> 
> find_entry and all of the <foo>_entry functions below it
> are overly generic names.  Maybe prefix with ctl_table_

agree.
I will address this in the next version of the patch.

thanks.

-- Hajime
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