Re: read_proc issue

Erik Mouw (J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl)
Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:14:10 +0100


On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:19:35AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On February 28, 2002 01:05 am, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > It might also be an idea to export proc_calc_metrics() from
> > fs/proc/proc_misc.c because quite a lot of code actually tries to do
> > exactly the same.
>
> Look at all the parameters, they're trying to be a struct. How about
> cleaning it up before exporting?

Look at all the parameters of a procfs read() function and compare them
with the parameters of proc_calc_metrics(). See why cleaning up
would make things only more complicated?

Erik

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