@@ -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)
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 Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)