Re: [PATCH v2 00/18] sysctl: constify sysctl ctl_tables

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 10:21:25PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > As I noted, I think this is a generically neat endeavor and so I think
> > it would be nice to shorthand *any* member of the struct. ctl->any.
> > Julia, is that possible?
> 
> What do you mean by *any* member?

I meant when any code tries to assign a new variable to any of the
members of the struct ctl_table *foo, so any foo->*any*

> If any is an identifier typed
> metavariable then that would get any immediate member.  But maybe you want
> something like
> 
> <+...ctl->any...+>
> 
> that will match anything that has ctl->any as a subexpression?

If as just an expression, then no, we really want this to be tied to
the data struture in question we want to modify.

  Luis