[PATCH] sysctl: factor out sysctl_head_next from do_sysctl

The current logic to walk through the list of sysctl table headers is slightly
painful and implement in a way it cannot be used by code outside sysctl.c

I am in the process of implementing a version of the sysctl proc support that
instead of using the proc generic non-caching monster, just uses the existing
sysctl data structure as backing store for building the dcache entries and for
doing directory reads.  To use the existing data structures however I need a
way to get at them.

[akpm@osdl.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 396b8d984c5d..72ba58b362d8 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -924,6 +924,10 @@ enum
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 #include <linux/list.h>
 
+/* For the /proc/sys support */
+extern struct ctl_table_header *sysctl_head_next(struct ctl_table_header *prev);
+extern void sysctl_head_finish(struct ctl_table_header *prev);
+
 extern void sysctl_init(void);
 
 typedef struct ctl_table ctl_table;