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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:27:21 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>,
	Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo
 providers

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:56:49PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Al, does the patch below looks better? If so I'll fix up the rest.

>  struct file_operations {
>  	struct module *owner;
> +	struct seq_operations *fdinfo_ops;

IDGI.  Why on the earth do you need the whole iterator?  All it takes
is show_fdinfo(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f); have ->show() in
your iterator (one going through the files) call that sucker for the
file we are trying to show.

I think you are severely overdesigning that thing...
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