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Message-ID: <Yg/U0Lfn4w7prn86@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 18 Feb 2022 09:18:08 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     yzaikin@...gle.com, keescook@...omium.org,
        zhanglianjie@...ontech.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] mm: move page-writeback sysctls to their own file

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 06:51:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> From: zhanglianjie <zhanglianjie@...ontech.com>
> Subject: mm: move page-writeback sysctls to their own file
> 
> 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.
> 
> So move the page-writeback sysctls to its own file.
> 
> [akpm@...ux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
> akpm@...ux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SYSCTL=n warnings]
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220129012955.26594-1-zhanglianjie@uniontech.com
> Signed-off-by: zhanglianjie <zhanglianjie@...ontech.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@...gle.com>
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Queued on sysctl-next.

  Luis

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