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

[Philip Rhoades]

People,


On 2022-04-23 06:44, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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


Thanks for that little glimpse into what happens with kernel development 
- interesting!

Phil.
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