Re: [PATCH v2] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers

[Joel Granados]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 10:58:10PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> On 2024-07-15 22:23:19+0000, Joel Granados wrote:
...
> > The merge window is now open. I want to send this patch on the Wednesday
> > of next week (jul 24).
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> > @Thomas: Some questions
> > 
> > 1. Are there any updates?
> 
> No.
> 
> > 2. Does it still apply cleanly against the latest master branch?
> 
> Not against mainline master, but against next-20240715.
> To apply cleanly (and compile) on mainline master it still requires the
> net/ and sysctl trees to be merged.
> Otherwise some modified functions are missing, leading to (trivial) merge
> conflicts or the preparation commits are missing, leading to compilation
> errors.

Understood. I have just sent Linus the changes for sysctl-next, so those
should land in master soon (baring any issues with the pull request).

These [1] and [2] are the two series in net-dev that are the deps for
the constification treewide patch. Once these two go into mainline, then
we are good to go. Right?
> 
> > 3. Are you able to do the last update at the beginning of next week (Jul
> >    22)?
> 
> Sure.
Thx


[1] net: constify ctl_table arguments of utility functions
    https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/?series=856252&state=%2A&archive=both
[2] bpf: constify member bpf_sysctl_kern::table
    https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/?series=854191&state=*


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Joel Granados