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

From: Bradley Morgan

Date: Sat Sep 05 2026 - 05:02:01 EST


On 5 September 2026 02:09:52 BST, Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>
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

Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>
>---
> 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
> ======
>
>

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