netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] [NETFILTER]: Replate direct proc_fops assignment with proc

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Message-Id: <20080327.165622.62269086.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:56:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	den@...nvz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] [NETFILTER]: Replate direct proc_fops assignment
 with proc_create call.

From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:20:53 +0300

> This elliminates infamous race during module loading when one could lookup
> proc entry without proc_fops assigned.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@...nvz.org>

Patrick, this is a pretty straightforward transformation
and bug fix, so I have applied this directly to net-2.6

Thanks Denis.
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