Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:34:49 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers |
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:29:27PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > This, BTW, is too convoluted for its own good. What you need is > something like > struct whatever { > struct seq_file *m; > struct file *f; > int flags; > }; > with single allocation of that sucker in your ->open(). Set > file->private_data to address of seq_file field in your object *before* > calling seq_open() and don't bother with m->private at all - just use > container_of(m, struct whatever, m) in your ->show() to get to that > structure...
I will try and post results, thanks!
Cyrill
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