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SubjectRe: Create proc entry under /proc/sys/kernel
Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 04:00:57PM +0800, RuoMu Hu wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to create a proc entry under /proc/sys/kernel directly by
>> create_proc_read_entry in the way shown below?
>>
>
> No longer.
>
>
>> test_pde = create_proc_read_entry("/proc/sys/kernel/test", 0, NULL,
>> test_read_proc, NULL);
>> if (test_pde == NULL) {
>> printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to create the test proc file.\n");
>> return -ENOMEM;
>> }
>>
>> I'm using this in my kernel module but create_proc_read_entry always
>> returns fail, while there's no problem creating proc entries directly under
>> /proc. The kernel source I'm building my kernel module against is
>> 2.6.25.4.
>>
>
> Use register_sysctl_table() for sysctls.
>

Thank you for your hint, it really helped me.

Another question: Is it possible to add an entry under /proc/sys/kernel
by register_sysctl_table() without modifying kernel source (adding an
entry to the kern_table[] array in kernel/sysctl.c)?

Best regards,
Romu


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