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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:57:50 +0300
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
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Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] simplify procfs code for seq_file instances
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>     git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git proc_create


I want to ask if it is time to start using poorman function overloading
with _b_c_e(). There are millions of allocation functions for example,
all slightly difference, and people will add more. Seeing /proc interfaces
doubled like this is painful.