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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] proc_fops: convert drivers/isdn/ to seq_file
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From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:25:31 -0800

> From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> 
> Convert code away from ->read_proc/->write_proc interfaces.  Switch to
> proc_create()/proc_create_data() which make addition of proc entries
> reliable wrt NULL ->proc_fops, NULL ->data and so on.
> 
> Problem with ->read_proc et al is described here commit
> 786d7e1612f0b0adb6046f19b906609e4fe8b1ba "Fix rmmod/read/write races in
> /proc entries"
> 
> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: CONFIG_PROC_FS=n build fix]
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
> Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Tilman has requested some fixes to the documentation text.
So I'm waiting for a fixed up version.