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Date:   Sat, 21 Jan 2023 10:23:31 +1100
From:   Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@...il.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, 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, Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@...il.com>
Subject: [net-next v4] ipv6: Document that max_size sysctl is deprecated

v4: fix deprecated typo.

Document that max_size is deprecated due to:

commit af6d10345ca7 ("ipv6: remove max_size check inline with ipv4")

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..4cc2fab58dea 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 6.3 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv6
+	as garbage collection manages cached route entries.
+
 neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
 	Minimum number of entries to keep.  Garbage collector will not
 	purge entries if there are fewer than this number.
-- 
2.31.1