The patch titled sysctl extern cleanup: pid has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was sysctl-extern-cleanup-pid.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged 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 moved to their own header 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 @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ #include <linux/net.h> #include <linux/sysrq.h> #include <linux/highuid.h> +#include <linux/pid.h> #include <linux/writeback.h> #include <linux/ratelimit.h> #include <linux/hugetlb.h> @@ -73,9 +74,7 @@ extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom; extern int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task; extern int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks; extern int max_threads; -extern int pid_max; extern int min_free_kbytes; -extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max; extern int sysctl_drop_caches; extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction; extern int compat_log; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx are origin.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-block-iopoll.patch linux-next.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