The patch titled sysctl extern cleanup: pid has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is sysctl-extern-cleanup-pid.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: pid 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 pid/pid_max_min/pid_max_max extern declarations to linux/pid.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/pid.h | 4 ++++ kernel/sysctl.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/pid.h~sysctl-extern-cleanup-pid include/linux/pid.h --- a/include/linux/pid.h~sysctl-extern-cleanup-pid +++ a/include/linux/pid.h @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ #include <linux/rcupdate.h> +/* for sysctl */ +extern int pid_max; +extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max; + enum pid_type { PIDTYPE_PID, diff -puN kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-extern-cleanup-pid kernel/sysctl.c --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-extern-cleanup-pid +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ #include <linux/rcustring.h> #include <linux/signal.h> #include <linux/binfmts.h> +#include <linux/pid.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> #include <asm/processor.h> @@ -75,9 +76,7 @@ /* External variables not in a header file. */ extern int max_threads; -extern int pid_max; extern int min_free_kbytes; -extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max; extern int compat_log; extern int latencytop_enabled; extern int sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max; _ 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