[PATCH v3 00/10] sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from kernel dir
Konrad Dybcio
konrad.dybcio at linaro.org
Mon Apr 22 07:27:47 PDT 2024
On 3/28/24 16:44, Joel Granados wrote:
> What?
> These commits remove the sentinel element (last empty element) from the
> sysctl arrays of all the files under the "kernel/" directory that use a
> sysctl array for registration. The merging of the preparation patches
> [1] to mainline allows us to remove sentinel elements without changing
> behavior. This is safe because the sysctl registration code
> (register_sysctl() and friends) use the array size in addition to
> checking for a sentinel [2].
Hi,
looks like *this* "patch" made it to the sysctl tree [1], breaking b4
for everyone else (as there's a "--- b4-submit-tracking ---" magic in
the tree history now) on next-20240422
Please drop it (again, I'm only talking about this empty cover letter).
Konrad
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl.git/commit/?h=sysctl-next&id=ec04a7fa09ddedc1d6c8b86ae281897256c7fdf0
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