linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/26] comedi: Don't use create_proc_read

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Date:	Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:56:19 +0100
From:	Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@....co.uk>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	Mori Hess <fmhess@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	David Schleef <ds@...leef.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"viro@...IV.linux.org.uk" <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/26] comedi: Don't use create_proc_read_entry() [RFC]

On 2013-04-11 20:05, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 04:15:52PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>> Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>> Don't use create_proc_read_entry() as that is deprecated, but rather use
>>>> proc_create_data() and seq_file instead.
>>>
>>> It seems to work okay and is simpler than I thought it would be!  You changed
>>> the mode of the file to 0644 for some reason though.  Please change it back to
>>> 0444 or S_IFREG | S_IRUGO.  Thanks.
>>
>> Ah... cut'n'paste error.  Sorry about that.
>
> I can fix that up by hand when I apply it, no worries.

You may need to sync with linux-next first, particularly commit 
e784788ddb7000dbea8bd2986a3f83c4d77f96ff by Al Viro "get rid of a bunch 
of open-coded create_proc_read_entry()".

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