From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc 2/4] procfs: Convert /proc/pid/fdinfo/fd handling routines
 into seq-file with fdinfo helpers
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:32:04 +0400
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	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
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To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
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On 05/17/2012 08:07 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> This patch converts /proc/pid/fdinfo/fd handling routines to seq-files with
> ability to plug in additional fdinfo helpers from other subsystems.
> 
> For example files created in eventfd/eventpoll/inotify subsystems might print
> out additional information, not just file position and flags.
> 
> Still if there no fdinfo helpers registered then the output is well known
> pos, flags pair.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>

I would split this into two parts -- the 1st one turns fdinfo into seq-files
and the 2nd one adds the fdinfo helpers. This will make the review MUCH simpler.

Thanks,
Pavel