From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965193AbVKHDSv (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:18:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965219AbVKHDSv (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:18:51 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:47745 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965160AbVKHDSu (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:18:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:03:40 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Al Viro Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com Subject: [OT] Re: [PATCH 3/18] allow callers of seq_open do allocation themselves Message-Id: <20051107190340.129bc8c3.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:01:31 +0000 Al Viro wrote: > From: Al Viro > Date: 1131401734 -0500 What format is that date in, please? > Allows caller of seq_open() to kmalloc() seq_file + whatever else they want > and set ->private_data to it. seq_open() will then abstain from doing > allocation itself. > Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- ~Randy