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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:52:38 +0200
From: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from kernel
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 04:27:47PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On 3/28/24 16:44, Joel Granados wrote:
> > What?
> > These commits remove the sentinel element (last empty element) from the
> > sysctl arrays of all the files under the "kernel/" directory that use a
> > sysctl array for registration. The merging of the preparation patches
> > [1] to mainline allows us to remove sentinel elements without changing
> > behavior. This is safe because the sysctl registration code
> > (register_sysctl() and friends) use the array size in addition to
> > checking for a sentinel [2].
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> looks like *this* "patch" made it to the sysctl tree [1], breaking b4
> for everyone else (as there's a "--- b4-submit-tracking ---" magic in
> the tree history now) on next-20240422
>=20
> Please drop it (again, I'm only talking about this empty cover letter).
Here do you mean revert? or do you mean force-push without the cover
letter commit?

I did the later, but if the former is necessary I can always go back to
the old HEAD, add a revert commit and then push that.

Best

>=20
> Konrad
>=20
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl.git/com=
mit/?h=3Dsysctl-next&id=3Dec04a7fa09ddedc1d6c8b86ae281897256c7fdf0

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Joel Granados

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