netdev - Re: [PATCH 03/15] [SUNRPC]: Use proc_create() to setup ->proc

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Message-Id: <20080228.140222.07061140.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:02:22 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	wangchen@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] [SUNRPC]: Use proc_create() to setup ->proc_fops
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From: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:55:40 +0800

> Use proc_create() to make sure that ->proc_fops be setup before gluing
> PDE to main tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>

Applied.

> @@ -229,9 +229,8 @@ do_register(const char *name, void *data, const struct file_operations *fops)
>  	rpc_proc_init();
>  	dprintk("RPC:       registering /proc/net/rpc/%s\n", name);
>  
> -	ent = create_proc_entry(name, 0, proc_net_rpc);
> +	ent = proc_create(name, 0, proc_net_rpc, fops);
>  	if (ent) {
> -		ent->proc_fops = fops;
>  		ent->data = data;
>  	}
>  	return ent;

For this case it appears that ent->data has the same kind of
visibility problem that ent->proc_fops does.
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