From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Pásztor Szilárd" <silicon@inf.bme.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Subject: Re: [2.5 patch] let COMX depend on PROC_FS
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:26:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030610142614.A25666@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.00.10306101347450.1700-100000@kempelen.iit.bme.hu>; from silicon@inf.bme.hu on Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:55:22PM +0200
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:55:22PM +0200, Pásztor Szilárd wrote:
> The drivers are used by some hundreds of cards today but we tell users to
> get the small kernelpatch from www.itc.hu and the patch, among other things,
> exports proc_get_inode. There was a process to integrate the patch into the
> mainstream kernel last year but, due to lack of time on my part, it was
> suspended. I hope to be able to pick the line up again and clean things up.
So what about fixing it instead? The usage of proc_get_inode is broken
and so is the whole profs mess in the comx driver. If you want to keep
the API you need to add a ramfs-style filesystem instead of abusing
procfs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-10 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-08 14:40 Adrian Bunk
2003-06-08 16:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-08 16:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-06-08 16:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-10 11:55 ` Pásztor Szilárd
2003-06-10 13:26 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-06-10 13:51 ` Pásztor Szilárd
2003-06-10 13:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-10 14:11 ` Pásztor Szilárd
2003-06-10 14:14 ` viro
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