From: Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: remove docbook and example
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:15:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091127101529.63b2baa5@nij0285> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091127070331.GF26327@x200.malnet.ru>
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On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:03:31 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Example is outdated, it still uses old ->read_proc interfaces and
> "fb" example is plain racy.
> There are better examples all over the tree.
Agreed, it was written back in the early 2.4 days. Time moves on.
> Docbook itself says almost nothing about /proc
> and contain quite a number of simply wrong facts, e.g. device nodes
> support. What it does is describing at great length interface which
> are going to be removed.
I always had plans to update the documentation but never could set
myself to do it.
> There are Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt in exchange.
Great, updated/newer documentation. Just remove the procfs
documentation and examples.
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org>
Regards,
Erik
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2009-11-27 7:03 [PATCH] proc: remove docbook and example Alexey Dobriyan
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