linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: remove docbook and example

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Message-ID: <20091127101529.63b2baa5@nij0285>
Date:	Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:15:29 +0100
From:	Erik Mouw <mouw@...linux.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: remove docbook and example

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:03:31 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> Example is outdated, it still uses old ->read_proc interfaces and
> "fb" example is plain racy.
> There are better examples all over the tree.

Agreed, it was written back in the early 2.4 days. Time moves on.

> Docbook itself says almost nothing about /proc
> and contain quite a number of simply wrong facts, e.g. device nodes
> support. What it does is describing at great length interface which
> are going to be removed.

I always had plans to update the documentation but never could set
myself to do it.

> There are Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt in exchange.

Great, updated/newer documentation. Just remove the procfs
documentation and examples.

> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>

Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw <mouw@...linux.org>


Regards,

Erik

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