This is part of the general push to deprecate register_sysctl_paths and
register_sysctl_table. After removing all the calling functions, we
remove both the register_sysctl_table function and the documentation
check that appeared in check-sysctl-docs awk script.

We save 595 bytes with this change:

./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.1.refactor-base-paths vmlinux.2.remove-sysctl-table
add/remove: 2/8 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 1154/-1749 (-595)
Function                                     old     new   delta
count_subheaders                               -     983    +983
unregister_sysctl_table                       29     184    +155
__pfx_count_subheaders                         -      16     +16
__pfx_unregister_sysctl_table.part            16       -     -16
__pfx_register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop   16       -     -16
__pfx_count_subheaders.part                   16       -     -16
__pfx___register_sysctl_base                  16       -     -16
unregister_sysctl_table.part                 136       -    -136
__register_sysctl_base                       478       -    -478
register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop        524       -    -524
count_subheaders.part                        547       -    -547
Total: Before=21257652, After=21257057, chg -0.00%

[mcgrof: remove register_leaf_sysctl_tables and append_path too and
 add bloat-o-meter stats]

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

The deprecation for register_sysctl_paths() is over. We can rejoice as
we nuke register_sysctl_paths(). The routine register_sysctl_table()
was the only user left of register_sysctl_paths(), so we can now just
open code and move the implementation over to what used to be
to __register_sysctl_paths().

The old dynamic struct ctl_table_set *set is now the point to
sysctl_table_root.default_set.

The old dynamic const struct ctl_path *path was being used in the
routine register_sysctl_paths() with a static:

static const struct ctl_path null_path[] = { {} };

Since this is a null path we can now just simplfy the old routine
and remove its use as its always empty.

This saves us a total of 230 bytes.

$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.old vmlinux
add/remove: 2/7 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 1015/-1245 (-230)
Function                                     old     new   delta
register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop          -     524    +524
register_sysctl_table                         22     497    +475
__pfx_register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop       -      16     +16
null_path                                      8       -      -8
__pfx_register_sysctl_paths                   16       -     -16
__pfx_register_leaf_sysctl_tables             16       -     -16
__pfx___register_sysctl_paths                 16       -     -16
__register_sysctl_base                        29      12     -17
register_sysctl_paths                         18       -     -18
register_leaf_sysctl_tables                  534       -    -534
__register_sysctl_paths                      620       -    -620
Total: Before=21259666, After=21259436, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

This script allows sysctl documentation to be checked against the
kernel source code, to identify missing or obsolete entries. Running
it against 5.5 shows for example that sysctl/kernel.rst has two
obsolete entries and is missing 52 entries.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>