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From: =?utf-8?q?Thomas_Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 22:23:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] sysctl: remove struct ctl_path
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To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, 
 Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>, Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, 
 =?utf-8?q?Thomas_Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>

All usages of this struct have been removed from the kernel tree.

The struct is still referenced by scripts/check-sysctl-docs but that
script is broken anyways as it only supports the register_sysctl_paths()
API and not the currently used register_sysctl() one.

Fixes: 0199849acd07 ("sysctl: remove register_sysctl_paths()")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
---
 include/linux/sysctl.h | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 61b40ea81f4d..8084e9132833 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -210,11 +210,6 @@ struct ctl_table_root {
 	int (*permissions)(struct ctl_table_header *head, struct ctl_table *table);
 };
 
-/* struct ctl_path describes where in the hierarchy a table is added */
-struct ctl_path {
-	const char *procname;
-};
-
 #define register_sysctl(path, table)	\
 	register_sysctl_sz(path, table, ARRAY_SIZE(table))
 

---
base-commit: 1a44b0073b9235521280e19d963b6dfef7888f18
change-id: 20231220-sysctl-paths-474697856a3f

Best regards,
-- 
Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>