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Date:	Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:32:24 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -net 2/2] Put proc_net_create() on death row

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:23:50PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> proc_net_create() stands on the way of shrinking the number of
> interfaces one can use for /proc files, namely, it uses ->get_info
> hook which will be converted, deprecated and deleted on its own
> schedule.

It's just a trivial helper, so please just remove it once you've
converted all users.

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