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authorLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>2023-03-02 12:28:18 -0800
committerLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>2023-04-13 11:49:04 -0700
commit228b09de936395ddd740df3522ea35ae934830d8 (patch)
tree6aa260ddf05136e5a73572d7ccc737d8eb44acca /fs/proc
parentb2f56e5574eac0cf9e3dc382bef010298cb1f1e9 (diff)
downloadlinux-228b09de936395ddd740df3522ea35ae934830d8.tar.gz
sysctl: clarify register_sysctl_init() base directory order
Relatively new docs which I added which hinted the base directories needed to be created before is wrong, remove that incorrect comment. This has been hinted before by Eric twice already [0] [1], I had just not verified that until now. Now that I've verified that updates the docs to relax the context described. [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/875ys0azt8.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ftbiud6s.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.17 Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 6b9b2694d4302..15d5e02f1ec0c 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -1440,10 +1440,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_sysctl);
* register_sysctl() failing on init are extremely low, and so for both reasons
* this function does not return any error as it is used by initialization code.
*
- * Context: Can only be called after your respective sysctl base path has been
- * registered. So for instance, most base directories are registered early on
- * init before init levels are processed through proc_sys_init() and
- * sysctl_init_bases().
+ * Context: if your base directory does not exist it will be created for you.
*/
void __init __register_sysctl_init(const char *path, struct ctl_table *table,
const char *table_name)