From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (lindbergh.monkeyblade.net [23.128.96.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE2BC1FA8 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:40:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99D53211C; Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:40:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID: Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=vhfPJf7Z5f5chzjjwIP7s/tDn0TUZnkQcjFDDtTrw5w=; b=imxYerFmGDCb2xssxYZ3UoOdxc c0+x40pLUrjokyWpxY69etwWTBtSaLENbA7ouFFHpq6MPOJcMys5tjbgL13i0vaQ7OPMLhk0DNNpU pMo1DNbyoUVhmTD4+L60MppcaDlwQ6RvIWX0/pflhQvlxFTf6BvmW34kGPzlIu7Qi4Foi1c/WX4eK BUwu69XyBSwXomoIrYhOybP70tqBPs3CxXLXg6WEAZdfnM4y11Rrz7/a6HCM48Ih+KODnmaE79/UE peL4wnb5KUOWRRtgzk/HB6PIJeVQnKNRoUXSdGgqJ1dGCeqWE8xvd5vGjMtONtk8gNYotFpD7+v4c 9lWe2TYw==; Received: from mcgrof by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1qP35r-00G18m-0v; Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:39:59 +0000 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:39:59 -0700 From: Luis Chamberlain To: Joel Granados Cc: Kees Cook , Iurii Zaikin , willy@infradead.org, josh@joshtriplett.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] sysctl: Add a size argument to register functions in sysctl Message-ID: References: <20230726140635.2059334-1-j.granados@samsung.com> <20230727114318.q5hxwwnjbwhm37wn@localhost> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <20230727114318.q5hxwwnjbwhm37wn@localhost> Sender: Luis Chamberlain X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_EF,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on lindbergh.monkeyblade.net On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 01:43:18PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 11:15:40AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 04:06:20PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote: > > > What? > > > These commits set things up so we can start removing the sentinel ele= ments. > >=20 > > Yes but the why must explained right away. > My intention of putting the "what" first was to explain the chunking and It may help also just to clarify: sentinel, the extra empty struct ctl_table at the end of each sysctl array. > Thx for this. > This is a more clear wording for the "Why". Do you mind if I copy/paste > it (with some changes to make it flow) into my next cover letter? I don't mind at all. Luis