Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] firmware_loader: simplify sysctl declaration with register_sysctl_subdir()

From: Luis Chamberlain <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 12:09:12 +0000

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:26:13PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:41:04AM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > From: Xiaoming Ni <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Move the firmware config sysctl table to fallback_table.c and use the
> > new register_sysctl_subdir() helper. This removes the clutter from
> > kernel/sysctl.c.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c       |  4 ++++
> >  drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.h       | 11 ++++++++++
> >  drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_table.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++--
> >  include/linux/sysctl.h                        |  1 -
> >  kernel/sysctl.c                               |  7 ------
> >  5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> So it now takes more lines than the old stuff?  :(

Pretty much agreed with the other changes, thanks for the review!

But this diff-stat change, indeed, it is unfortunate that we end up
with more code here than before. We'll try to reduce it instead
somehow, however in some cases during this spring-cleaning, since
the goal is to move code from one file to another, it *may* require
more code. So it won't always be negative. But we'll try!

  Luis