Commit 5475e8f0 authored by Xiaoming Ni's avatar Xiaoming Ni Committed by Linus Torvalds
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random: move the random sysctl declarations to its own file

kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.

To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places
where they actually belong.  The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to
know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we
just care about the core logic.

So move the random sysctls to their own file and use
register_sysctl_init().

[mcgrof@kernel.org: commit log update to justify the move]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124231435.1445213-3-mcgrof@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarXiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <b...
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