On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 06:07:03PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote: > This is part of the general push to deprecate register_sysctl_paths and > register_sysctl_table. This patchset completely removes register_sysctl_table > and replaces it with register_sysctl effectively transitioning 5 base paths > ("kernel", "vm", "fs", "dev" and "debug") to the new call. Besides removing the > actuall function, I also removed it from the checks done in check-sysctl-docs. > > Testing for this change was done in the same way as with previous sysctl > replacement patches: I made sure that the result of `find /proc/sys/ | sha1sum` > was the same before and after the patchset. > > Have pushed this through 0-day. Waiting on results.. > > Feedback greatly appreciated. Thanks so much! I merged this to sysctl-testing as build tests are ongoing. But I incorporated these minor changes to your first patch as register_sysctl_init() is more obvious about when we cannot care about the return value. If the build tests come through I'll push to sysctl-next. diff --git a/fs/sysctls.c b/fs/sysctls.c index 228420f5fe1b..76a0aee8c229 100644 --- a/fs/sysctls.c +++ b/fs/sysctls.c @@ -31,11 +31,7 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_shared_sysctls[] = { static int __init init_fs_sysctls(void) { - /* - * We do not check the return code for register_sysctl because the - * original call to register_sysctl_base always returned 0. - */ - register_sysctl("fs", fs_shared_sysctls); + register_sysctl_init("fs", fs_shared_sysctls); return 0; } diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index f784b0fe5689..fa2aa8bd32b6 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2350,10 +2350,10 @@ static struct ctl_table dev_table[] = { int __init sysctl_init_bases(void) { - register_sysctl("kernel", kern_table); - register_sysctl("vm", vm_table); - register_sysctl("debug", debug_table); - register_sysctl("dev", dev_table); + register_sysctl_init("kernel", kern_table); + register_sysctl_init("vm", vm_table); + register_sysctl_init("debug", debug_table); + register_sysctl_init("dev", dev_table); return 0; }