The patch titled sysctl extern cleanup: signal has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is sysctl-extern-cleanup-signal.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sysctl extern cleanup: signal From: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be move to their own head file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move print_fatal_signals extern declaration to linux/signal.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/signal.h | 2 ++ kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/signal.h~sysctl-extern-cleanup-signal include/linux/signal.h --- a/include/linux/signal.h~sysctl-extern-cleanup-signal +++ a/include/linux/signal.h @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ #ifdef __KERNEL__ #include <linux/list.h> +/* for sysctl */ +extern int print_fatal_signals; /* * Real Time signals may be queued. */ diff -puN kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-extern-cleanup-signal kernel/sysctl.c --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-extern-cleanup-signal +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ #include <linux/slow-work.h> #include <linux/perf_event.h> #include <linux/rcustring.h> +#include <linux/signal.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> #include <asm/processor.h> @@ -72,7 +73,6 @@ #if defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL) /* External variables not in a header file. */ -extern int print_fatal_signals; extern int max_threads; extern int core_uses_pid; extern int suid_dumpable; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-c_a_d.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-signal.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-binfmts.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-pid.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-mm.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-compat.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-latencytop.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-file-nr.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-rcu.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-block-iopoll.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-module.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-sg.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-acct.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-rtmutex.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-lockdep.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-poll.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-inotify.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html