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From: Mirko Lindner <mlindner@syskonnect.de>
Subject: Re: [RFT] simplify skge /proc interface.
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:27:11 +0000 (UTC)
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To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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Thank you for the submission,

the latest driver version 6.17 (still by Linus) has a lot of
proc-changes. I=C2=B4ll insert the remaining changes into our tree and ma=
ke a
new release next week.

Cheers,

Mirko




On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 01:06, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This patch is against 2.6.0-test4 and simplifys the /proc interface for
> the skge driver. =20
>=20
> * Use seq_file single_open interface to avoid possible buffer over
>   run and formatting issues.
> * Put pointer to device in the proc dir private data to avoid having
>   to search through devices to find the info.
> * Use %lld rather than special formatting code
> * use proc_mkdir
> * Don't die if proc fs is not configured or creating entries fails.
>=20
> New code is written in kernel style.
>=20
> Builds and loads but don't have real hardware. Could someone
> please test this with a real board?
>=20
> Somewhere in this 8K line driver is a 1000 line driver waiting to get o=
ut...
>=20