Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:56:16AM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > >  struct file_operations {
> > >  	struct module *owner;
> > > +	struct seq_operations *fdinfo_ops;
> > 
> > IDGI.  Why on the earth do you need the whole iterator?  All it takes
> > is show_fdinfo(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f); have ->show() in
> > your iterator (one going through the files) call that sucker for the
> > file we are trying to show.
> > 
> > I think you are severely overdesigning that thing...
> 
> Hmm, in very first versions I've been using one ->show method, but
> then I thought that this is not very correlate with seq-files idea
> where for each record show/next sequence is called. I'll update (this
> for sure will make code simplier, and I'll have to check for seq-file
> overflow after seq_printf call to not continue printing data for too
> long if buffer already out of space).

Al, I'll cook the whole series tomorrow and resend it for review,
also I guess the new show_fdinfo() member in file-operations should
be guarded with CONFIG_PROC_FS, right?