linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH sysctl-next] kernel/kexec_core: move kexec

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Message-ID: <b07af605-ab74-a313-f8e4-da794dcde111@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:43:49 +0800
From:   yingelin <yingelin@...wei.com>
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
CC:     <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, <keescook@...omium.org>,
        <yzaikin@...gle.com>, <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <zengweilin@...wei.com>, <chenjianguo3@...wei.com>,
        <nixiaoming@...wei.com>, <qiuguorui1@...wei.com>,
        <young.liuyang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH sysctl-next] kernel/kexec_core: move kexec_core sysctls
 into its own file


在 2022/2/27 4:20, Luis Chamberlain 写道:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 10:35:21AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
>> That seems to be an issue everything related to sysctl are all added to
>> kernel/sysctl.c. Do you have a pointer that someone complained about it
>> and people agree to scatter them into their own component code?
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220226031054.47DF8C340E7@smtp.kernel.org
>
>> I understand your concern now, I am personally not confused by that
>> maybe because I haven't got stuff adding or changing into sysctls. My
>> concern is if we only care and move kexec knob, or we have plan to try
>> to move all of them. If there's some background information or
>> discussion with a link, that would be helpful.
> We're moving them all out. Sorry, yingelin's commit log message sucks
> and it needs to be fixed to account for the justification. All the
> filesystem sysctls are already moved out. Slowly we are moving the other
> ones out and also doing minor optimizations along the way.
I'm sorry I didn't express it clearly. I'll fix it in v2 patch.
>
>    Luis
> .