Re: [PATCH] Fix proc_file_write missing ppos update

[Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 05:44:52PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 31 August 2009, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > Out-of-tree argument means almost nothing.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > You'd better start converting to struct file_operations::write now.
> 
> Maybe a purely mechanical conversion to file_operations would be a nice first
> step, just so we can remove read_proc and write_proc? Taking scsi_proc.c
> as an example, this should be really straightforward and lets us get
> rid of the write_proc and read_proc callbacks from proc_dir_entry without
> having to rewrite all the remaining drivers that use it.
> 
> Obviously, someone who understands the specific driver code better should
> then clean up the code by converting to seq_file operations or something
> else that is appropriate there.

I don't like any churn in that area. Everything is ready for ->proc_fops usage.
So we should simply convert users away.
Actually most of SCSI and IDE is already done, just wasn't sent yet.

After conversion, ->read_proc, ->write_proc, create_proc_read_entry(),
create_proc_entry() will become deprecated for a while, then gone.