linux-kernel - Re: simplify procfs code for seq

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Message-ID: <20180419185750.GD2066@avx2>
Date:   Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:57:50 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com,
        linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
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        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
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Subject: Re: simplify procfs code for seq_file instances

>     git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git proc_create


I want to ask if it is time to start using poorman function overloading
with _b_c_e(). There are millions of allocation functions for example,
all slightly difference, and people will add more. Seeing /proc interfaces
doubled like this is painful.