Re: [PATCH] bpf: move the bpf syscall sysctl table to its own module

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 09:42:00AM +0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 09:35:29AM +0800, Yan Zhu wrote:

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Sysctl table is easier to read under its own module.

Hey Yan, thanks for you patch!

This does not explain how this is being to help with maitenance as otherwise this makes
kernel/sysctl.c hard to maintain and we also tend to get many conflicts. It also does not
explain how all the filesystem sysctls are not gone and that this is just the next step, 
moving slowly the rest of the sysctls. Explaining this in the commit log will help patch
review and subsystem maintainers understand the conext / logic behind the move.

I'd be more than happy to take this if bpf folks Ack. To avoid conflicts I can route this
through sysctl-next which is put forward in particular to avoid conflicts across trees for
this effort. Let me know.

Thank you for your reply. 

My patch is based on sysctl-next, sorry I forgot to identify it as a patch from the
sysctl-next branch. I will send the v2 patch later.