netdev - Re: [patch 1/2] proc_fops: convert drivers/isdn/ to seq

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Date:	Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:26:48 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	isdn@...ux-pingi.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org, adobriyan@...il.com,
	tilman@...p.cc
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] proc_fops: convert drivers/isdn/ to seq_file

From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:25:31 -0800

> From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> 
> Convert code away from ->read_proc/->write_proc interfaces.  Switch to
> proc_create()/proc_create_data() which make addition of proc entries
> reliable wrt NULL ->proc_fops, NULL ->data and so on.
> 
> Problem with ->read_proc et al is described here commit
> 786d7e1612f0b0adb6046f19b906609e4fe8b1ba "Fix rmmod/read/write races in
> /proc entries"
> 
> [akpm@...ux-foundation.org: CONFIG_PROC_FS=n build fix]
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>
> Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Tilman has requested some fixes to the documentation text.
So I'm waiting for a fixed up version.
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