The sysctl registration APIs do not need a terminating table entry
anymore and with commit acc154691fc7 ("sysctl: Warn on an empty procname element")
even emit warnings if such a sentinel entry is supplied.
While at it also remove the mention of "table->de" which was removed in
commit 3fbfa98112fc ("[PATCH] sysctl: remove the proc_dir_entry member for the sysctl tables")
back in 2007.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sysctl.h | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index aa4c6d44aaa0..47ca2536865b 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -90,9 +90,7 @@ int proc_do_static_key(const struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
/*
* Register a set of sysctl names by calling register_sysctl
- * with an initialised array of struct ctl_table's. An entry with
- * NULL procname terminates the table. table->de will be
- * set up by the registration and need not be initialised in advance.
+ * with an initialised array of struct ctl_table's.
*
* sysctl names can be mirrored automatically under /proc/sys. The
* procname supplied controls /proc naming.
@@ -133,7 +131,7 @@ static inline void *proc_sys_poll_event(struct ctl_table_poll *poll)
/* A sysctl table is an array of struct ctl_table: */
struct ctl_table {
- const char *procname; /* Text ID for /proc/sys, or zero */
+ const char *procname; /* Text ID for /proc/sys */
void *data;
int maxlen;
umode_t mode;
---
base-commit: 34ac1e82e5a78d5ed7f647766f5b1b51ca4d983a
change-id: 20240810-sysctl-procname-null-comment-80160bd4089f
Best regards,
--
Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
