Re: [PATCH v3 04/28] arm64: Port deprecated instruction emulation to new sysctl interface

Catalin Marinas
2017-10-11T14:17:57Z

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 07:38:21PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> Currently, armv8_deprected.c takes charge of the "abi" sysctl
> directory, which makes life difficult for other code that wants to
> register sysctls in the same directory.
>
> There is a "new" [1] sysctl registration interface that removes the
> need to define ctl_tables for parent directories explicitly, which
> is ideal here.
>
> This patch ports register_insn_emulation_sysctl() over to the
> register_sysctl() interface and removes the redundant ctl_table for
> "abi".
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>
> [1] fea478d4101a (sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl
> users)
> The commit message notes an intent to port users of the
> pre-existing interfaces over to register_sysctl(), though the
> number of users of the new interface currently appears negligible.
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c | 15 +++------------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>