Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com> --- 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
