netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/15] sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from drivers

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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 09:02:58 +0000
From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To: Joel Granados <j.granados@...sung.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from drivers



Le 02/10/2023 à 10:47, Joel Granados a écrit :
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 04:31:30PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:

> I followed this trace and proc_handler is correctly defined in tty_table
> (struct ctl_table) in drivers/tty/tty_io.c:tty_init and there is not
> path that changes these values.
> Additionally, we then fail trying to print instead of continuing with
> the initialization. My conjecture is that this might be due to something
> different than tht sysctl register call.
> 
> Does this happen consistenly or is this just a one off issue?

Don't know.

> 
> To what branch are these patches being applied to?

As far as I understand from 
https://github.com/linuxppc/linux-snowpatch/commits/snowpatch/375319, 
it's being applied on 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?id=d774975


> 
> I'm going to post my V2 and keep working on this issue if it pops up
> again.
> 

Christophe