netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] sysctl: Remove unused ctl

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Message-ID: <1491a7c7-3ff8-4aea-a6ee-4950f65c756f@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:28:31 +0100
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Joel Granados <joel.granados@...nel.org>,
 Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
 Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
 David Hildenbrand <david@...nel.org>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, John Ogness
 <john.ogness@...utronix.de>, Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-hams@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sysctl: Remove unused ctl_table forward declarations

On 12/17/25 1:16 PM, Joel Granados wrote:
> Remove superfluous forward declarations of ctl_table from header files
> where they are no longer needed. These declarations were left behind
> after sysctl code refactoring and cleanup.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@...nel.org>
> ---
> Apologies for such a big To: list. My idea is for this to go into
> mainline through sysctl; get back to me if you prefer otherwise. On the
> off chance that this has a V3, let me know if you want to be removed
> from the To and I'll make that happen

For the net bits:

Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

I'm ok with merging this via the sysctl tree, given that we don't see
much action happening in the ax25 header (and very low chances of
conflicts). But I would be also ok if you would split this into multiple
patches, one for each affected subsystem.

/P