Re: [PATCH] sysctl.c: Change a .proc_handler = proc_dointvec to &proc_dointvec,

[Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 19:20 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > Searching for things that are declared as functions (either a definition 
> > or a prototype), and then referenced as &f gives over 2000 results in 
> > almost 600 files.
> 
> Just curious, do you know how many are referenced
> without the &?

I got over 95000 (not checked in detail, though).

> > Here are a couple of typical examples:
> > 
> > arch/arm/mach-omap1/clock.c:
> > 
> > static const struct clkops clkops_dspck = {
> >        .enable         = &omap1_clk_enable_dsp_domain,
> >        .disable        = &omap1_clk_disable_dsp_domain,
> >  };
> > 
> > arch/arm/mach-omap1/serial.c:
> > 
> >        ret = request_irq(gpio_to_irq(gpio_nr), &omap_serial_wake_interrupt,
> >                           IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING, "serial wakeup", NULL);
> > 
> > Should both cases lose the initial &?
> 
> If what is desired is kernel wide consistent use, yes.
> What I would like is file/subsystem consistent use.
> 
> Looking at sysctl.c and seeing that different use
> stand out was odd.

It would be possible to count the number of occurrences in a given file, 
and then change the ones that have the less popular format, or a format 
that occurs less than some percentage of time.

julia