Re: [PATCH] proc_lookup not exported

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:48:50 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jeff Golds wrote:

> I don't see why not. I created my own mkdir and rmdir handlers in my
> module. I'd like to use the lookup function that proc supplies instead
> of supplying my own, why shouldn't I be allowed to do that? It's not as
> if I am doing something other than what normally happens: I am
> assigning inode_operations::lookup to be proc_lookup.

Use ramfs as a model; procfs is not well-suited for that sort of work.

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