Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:26:14 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [2.5 patch] let COMX depend on PROC_FS |
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:55:22PM +0200, Pásztor Szilárd wrote: > The drivers are used by some hundreds of cards today but we tell users to > get the small kernelpatch from www.itc.hu and the patch, among other things, > exports proc_get_inode. There was a process to integrate the patch into the > mainstream kernel last year but, due to lack of time on my part, it was > suspended. I hope to be able to pick the line up again and clean things up.
So what about fixing it instead? The usage of proc_get_inode is broken and so is the whole profs mess in the comx driver. If you want to keep the API you need to add a ramfs-style filesystem instead of abusing procfs.
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