Re: [PATCH] ipv4: make arp seq_file show method only produce one

[Neil Brown]

On Wednesday October 16, [e-mail] wrote:
>    From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:11:08 -0300
> 
>    That would be nice, yes, bastardizing pos for this is, humm, ugly, and
>    it isn't accessible at show time (pun intended 8) ).
> 
> Can you remind me what the original objection was to
> just using seq->private?  Is it used, or planned to
> be used, by something else?

I use seq->private for private state for /proc/fs/nfs/exports.
It works nicely.
You need to define an 'open' the sets it up, and a 'release' to
tear it down, rather than doing it in start/stop.
See fs/nfsd/fnsctl.c:exports_open

NeilBrown