linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel/reboot: move reboot sysctls to its own file

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Date:   Wed, 16 Feb 2022 23:53:36 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     tangmeng <tangmeng@...ontech.com>, Zhen Ni <nizhen@...ontech.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, peterz@...radead.org
Cc:     keescook@...omium.org, yzaikin@...gle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/reboot: move reboot sysctls to its own file

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 12:23:21PM +0800, tangmeng wrote:
> kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
> dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.
> 
> To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places
> where they actually belong.  The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to
> know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we
> just care about the core logic.
> 
> All filesystem syctls now get reviewed by fs folks. This commit
> follows the commit of fs, move the poweroff_cmd and ctrl-alt-del
> sysctls to its own file, kernel/reboot.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: tangmeng <tangmeng@...ontech.com>

Queued onto sysctl-next [0]. This tree is intended to queue up all of
the sysctl changes, get them tested.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git/log/?h=sysctl-next

  Luis