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Date:   Wed, 18 Jan 2023 20:38:49 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, dsahern@...nel.org, martin.lau@...nel.org,
        joel@...lfernandes.org, paulmck@...nel.org, eyal.birger@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        andrea.mayer@...roma2.it
Subject: Re: [net-next v2] ipv6: Document that max_size sysctl is
 depreciated

On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:18:58 +1100 Jon Maxwell wrote:
> Subject: [net-next v2] ipv6: Document that max_size sysctl is depreciated
>
> v2: use correct commit syntax.

change log under the --- lines

> Document that max_size is depreciated due to:
> 
> af6d10345ca7 ("ipv6: remove max_size check inline with ipv4")

 ^ commit

the word "commit" should be there before the hash

> Signed-off-by: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
> index 7fbd060d6047..edf1fcd10c5c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
> @@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ route/max_size - INTEGER
>  	From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
>  	as route cache is no longer used.
>  
> +	From linux kernel 6.2 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv6

6.2 or 6.3? 6.2 is what's currently in Linus's tree, net-next 
is 6.3 and the commit in the commit msg is in net-next only.

> +	as garbage collection manages cached route entries.