From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: selvakumar nagendran <kernelselva@yahoo.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: exporting /proc entry for module
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:54:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41E5FF0C.10807@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050113044912.40078.qmail@web60610.mail.yahoo.com>
selvakumar nagendran wrote:
> --- Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
>
>>To fix this in the future, export a /proc entry that
>>when written to
>>causes your module to properly clean everything up
>>and prevent anyone
>>from getting new accesses. This then allows you to
>>remove the module
>>cleanly. Note that it may not be possible to
>>cleanly deregister,
>>depending on what your module is doing.
>>
>
> How can I export a /proc entry for my module?
. . . . . . . . . .
You can study the valuable documents at
http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/
or google for other procfs example source code,
which should find several examples for you,
such as http://www.xenotime.net/linux/procfs_ex/
--
~Randy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-13 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-12 8:53 Removing a module even if use count is not zero selvakumar nagendran
2005-01-12 13:47 ` Brian Gerst
2005-01-12 15:15 ` Chris Friesen
2005-01-13 4:49 ` exporting /proc entry for module selvakumar nagendran
2005-01-13 4:54 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
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