Re: [PATCH] docs: sysctl: Remove obsolete sg-big-buff entry

From: Randy Dunlap

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 22:46:13 EST




On 9/4/26 6:09 PM, Karl Mehltretter wrote:
> The sg-big-buff sysctl no longer exists. The documented SG_BIG_BUFF
> macro is only a compatibility alias and changing it does not alter the
> driver default.
>
> Fixes: 50209dec14f8 ("scsi: sg: Remove deprecated sg-big-buff")
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks.

> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 13 -------------
> 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> index b6328cd0f43e9..d9e9b12136eb2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> @@ -1334,19 +1334,6 @@ seccomp
> See Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst.
>
>
> -sg-big-buff
> -===========
> -
> -This file shows the size of the generic SCSI (sg) buffer.
> -You can't tune it just yet, but you could change it on
> -compile time by editing ``include/scsi/sg.h`` and changing
> -the value of ``SG_BIG_BUFF``.
> -
> -There shouldn't be any reason to change this value. If
> -you can come up with one, you probably know what you
> -are doing anyway :)
> -
> -
> shmall
> ======
>

--
~Randy