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Date:   Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:42:10 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc:     viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: Make inline name size calculation automatic
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:43:19 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Make calculation of the size of the inline name in struct proc_dir_entry
> automatic, rather than having to manually encode the numbers and failing to
> allow for lockdep.
> 
> Require a minimum inline name size of 33+1 to allow for names that look
> like two hex numbers with a dash between.

Please cc Alexey on /proc patches.

What are the user-visible runtime effects of this change?