Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1: new create_proc_entry() users

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Feb 18 2008 - 08:06:26 EST


On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:50:50 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > profile-likely-unlikely-macros
> > page-owner-tracking-leak-detector
> > cciss-procfs-updates-to-display-info-about-many-volumes
>
> Guys, create_proc_entry() is slightly racy in case of modular code and
> proc_create() was invented to fix it. Eventually all create_proc_entry()
> users will be converted to proc_create(), so please do it for new code.

The first two patches are -mm-only debug patches - they won't be going into
mainline.

I'll make a note that
cciss-procfs-updates-to-display-info-about-many-volumes.pach needs
updating, thanks.

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