On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:30:22PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 4/21/20 7:15 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Extern declarations in .c files are a bad style and can lead to > > mismatches. Use existing definitions in headers where they exist, > > and otherwise move the external declarations to suitable header > > files. > > Your cleanup reminds me of this Andrew's sigh from last week [1]. > I'm not saying your series should do that too, just wondering if some of the > moves you are doing now would be better suited for the hypothetical new header > to avoid moving them again later (but I admit I haven't looked closer). > > [1] > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/20200417174654.9af0c51afb5d9e35e5519113@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ I thought of that, but I'm not really sure it is worth it. I'd rather move more sysctl implementations out of sysctl.c and just export the tables back to it.