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Fri, 09 May 2025 13:34:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Alexey Dobriyan To: corbet@lwn.net Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan Subject: [PATCH 3/9] CodingStyle: advise on using "sysctl" in sysctl variables Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 23:34:24 +0300 Message-ID: <20250509203430.3448-3-adobriyan@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.0 In-Reply-To: <20250509203430.3448-1-adobriyan@gmail.com> References: <20250509203430.3448-1-adobriyan@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan --- Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst index a4fbe45c3eb9..ac9c1dbe00b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst @@ -356,6 +356,10 @@ specification that mandates those terms. For new specifications translate specification usage of the terminology to the kernel coding standard where possible. +Variables holding data exported via sysctl interface better have ``sysctl`` +somewhere in the name. This should remind developer that its value may change +at any moment unsynchronized with the rest of the code. + Typedefs -------- -- 2.49.0