Re: [PATCH 1/1] console: add /proc/consoles

[Jiri Slaby]

On 11/03/2010 05:13 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 04:35:09PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> It allows users to see what consoles are currently known to the system
>> and with what flags.
>>
>> It is based on Werner's patch, the part about traversing fds was
>> removed, the code was moved to kernel/printk.c, where consoles are
>> handled and it makes more sense to me.
> 
> Why kernel/printk.c?  I don't think that makes sense, it's just a random
> proc file, so why not put it into something like fs/proc/ instead?
> 
> Does it rely on any functions in the printk.c file?

No it doesn't. I will move it to fs/proc/ if that's preferred. I checked
how VM proc stuff is handled and it was in in mm/, so I put this into
kernel/...

(Then it will depend on the console cleanup series which I sent few
minutes ago...)

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs
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