The patch titled sysctl extern cleanup: sg has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is sysctl-extern-cleanup-sg.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: sg 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 sg_big_buff extern declaration to scsi/sg.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/scsi/sg.h | 3 +++ kernel/sysctl.c | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN include/scsi/sg.h~sysctl-extern-cleanup-sg include/scsi/sg.h --- a/include/scsi/sg.h~sysctl-extern-cleanup-sg +++ a/include/scsi/sg.h @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ Major new features in SG 3.x driver (cf (for the lk 2.2 series). */ +#ifdef __KERNEL__ +extern int sg_big_buff; /* for sysctl */ +#endif /* New interface introduced in the 3.x SG drivers follows */ diff -puN kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-extern-cleanup-sg kernel/sysctl.c --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-extern-cleanup-sg +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK #include <linux/blk-iopoll.h> #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG +#include <scsi/sg.h> +#endif #include <asm/uaccess.h> #include <asm/processor.h> @@ -108,10 +111,6 @@ static int min_percpu_pagelist_fract = 8 static int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX; -#ifdef CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG -extern int sg_big_buff; -#endif - #ifdef CONFIG_SPARC #include <asm/system.h> #endif _ 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