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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/24] treewide: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to
 struct ctl_table
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 16:53 -0700, David Daney wrote:
> After all this work, why not go ahead and remove the typedef?  That way 
> people won't add more users of this abomination.

Hi David.

The typedef can't be removed until all the uses are gone.

I've sent this before as a single large patch as well as
individual patches.

treewide:	https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/22/600
RemoveTypedef:	https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/22/603