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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/12] net_device seq_file
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:36:44 -0800
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:11:52 +0300
Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org> wrote:

> Library function to create a seq_file in proc filesystem,
> showing some information for each netdevice.
> This code is present in the kernel in about 10 instances, and
> all of them can be converted to using introduced library function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin <saw@swsoft.com>

But the implementations can use static data rather than allocation,
also the long term desire is to get rid of supporting most of these proc
interfaces.