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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 17:50:36 +0200
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux-2.5.8-pre1 fs/dquot
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Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> 
> 
>>Looking further through the pre patch I have found the following:
>>
>>diff -Nru a/fs/dquot.c b/fs/dquot.c
>>--- a/fs/dquot.c	Wed Apr  3 17:11:14 2002
>>+++ b/fs/dquot.c	Wed Apr  3 17:11:14 2002
>>...
>>+static ctl_table fs_table[] = {
>>+ 
>>{FS_NRDQUOT, "dquot-nr", &nr_dquots, 2*sizeof(int),
>>+ 
>>  0444, NULL, &proc_dointvec},
>>+ 
>>{},
>>+};
>>
>>
>>What the heck is "dquot-nr"?
> 
> 
> The name that used to be there in 2.5.7 and before.  Check kernel/sysctl.c -
> this stuff had been moved from there verbatim.

Yes of course. My point is: Those names are unsystematical and
ugly *alltogether*. However it's of course not worth the effort to
change them right now...


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