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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 13:53:22 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:09:54 +0200 Joel Granados wrote:
> In order to remove the end element from the ctl_table struct arrays, we
> explicitly define the size when registering the targets.
> __register_sysctl_table is the first function to grow a size argument.
> For this commit to focus only on that function, we temporarily implement
> a size calculation in register_net_sysctl, which is an indirection call
> for all the network register calls.

You didn't CC the cover letter to netdev so replying here.

Is the motivation just the size change? Does it conflict with changes
queued to other trees?

It'd be much better if you could figure out a way to push prep into 
6.5 and then convert subsystems separately.