Re: [PATCH] proc: remove docbook and example
From: Erik Mouw
Date: Fri Nov 27 2009 - 04:24:28 EST
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:03:31 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Example is outdated, it still uses old ->read_proc interfaces and
> "fb" example is plain racy.
> There are better examples all over the tree.
Agreed, it was written back in the early 2.4 days. Time moves on.
> Docbook itself says almost nothing about /proc
> and contain quite a number of simply wrong facts, e.g. device nodes
> support. What it does is describing at great length interface which
> are going to be removed.
I always had plans to update the documentation but never could set
myself to do it.
> There are Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt in exchange.
Great, updated/newer documentation. Just remove the procfs
documentation and examples.
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Regards,
Erik
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