netdev - Re: [PATCH 16/39] ipmi: simplify procfs code

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Message-ID: <20180424141601.GC26136@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:16:01 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        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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        jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/39] ipmi: simplify procfs code

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:29:29AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 04/19/2018 07:41 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Use remove_proc_subtree to remove the whole subtree on cleanup instead
>> of a hand rolled list of proc entries, unwind the registration loop into
>> individual calls.  Switch to use proc_create_single to further simplify
>> the code.
>
> I'm yanking all the proc code out of the IPMI driver in 3.18.  So this is 
> probably
> not necessary.

Ok, I'll drop this patch.