From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: looking for simple module/driver programming examples in source tree
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 05:54:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110503125425.GA29202@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1105030837450.8195@localhost6.localdomain6>
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 08:38:48AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2011, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 07:45:54AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > once you see that living, breathing example, what more would you
> > > need to know about how to have your module/driver create a simple
> > > read-only proc file?
> >
> > You need to know that if your module/driver ever creates a simple
> > read-only proc file, they will be flamed to a crisp on lkml when
> > they submit it :)
> >
> > Seriously, don't ever create a new proc file, it's not anything
> > anyone should ever be doing anymore.
>
> so have proc/seq file been massively deprecated in favour of sysfs
> attribute files, then?
Yes, that happened about 8 years ago :)
No driver should ever add a proc file, it's that simple.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-03 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-03 11:45 looking for simple module/driver programming examples in source tree Robert P. J. Day
2011-05-03 12:28 ` Greg KH
2011-05-03 12:38 ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-05-03 12:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-05-03 12:59 ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-05-03 13:39 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2011-05-03 13:44 ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-05-03 13:51 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2011-05-03 14:11 ` Greg KH
2011-05-03 14:20 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-05-03 14:44 ` anish singh
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