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remove val in __do_proc_dointvec

PATCH New Tomohiro Kusumi 1 participant 1 message Dec 28, 2007 Proc sysctl

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PATCH 1/1 remove val in __do_proc_dointvec

Hi

What's the purpose of the val in __do_proc_dointvec ? It seems no one ever uses this val.

Tomohiro Kusumi

kernel/sysctl.c +1 -3
diff -Nur linux-2.6.23.org/kernel/sysctl.c linux-2.6.23/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1716,7 +1716,7 @@
 		  void *data)
 {
 #define TMPBUFLEN 21
-	int *i, vleft, first=1, neg, val;
+	int *i, vleft, first=1, neg;
 	unsigned long lval;
 	size_t left, len;
 	
@@ -1769,8 +1769,6 @@
 			len = p-buf;
 			if ((len < left) && *p && !isspace(*p))
 				break;
-			if (neg)
-				val = -val;
 			s += len;
 			left -= len;