From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/1] sysctl: remove CONFIG_SYSCTL, it just mirrors CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:44:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <amC7F7oKFjYKcQW2@redhat.com> (raw)
Andrew, Eric, et al,
To me it is a bit annoying/confusing to see both CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL and
CONFIG_SYSCTL in the source code (they are the same thing), but...
Does it make any sense to try to suggest this patch for -mm tree?
It is hopefully trivial (generated by 2 perl one-liners) but touches 170 files.
So far I don't even CC maintainers, the output of get_maintainer.pl is huge.
Alternatively, we could kill CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL in favour of CONFIG_SYSCTL.
This would result in a much smaller patch, but I am not sure if it is "safe"
because CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL is user-visible in that it has a prompt in
fs/proc/Kconfig. But perhaps this is fine?
(either way we can make a couple more minor cleanups if we kill one of them).
Oleg.
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2026-07-22 12:44 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2026-07-22 12:44 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] sysctl: remove CONFIG_SYSCTL, it just mirrors CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL Oleg Nesterov
2026-07-22 13:07 ` [RFC PATCH 0/1] " Alexey Gladkov
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