[PATCH] cleanup up seq file usage in resource.c

From: Jeff Muizelaar (muizelaar@rogers.com)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 19:08:15 EST


This patch against 2.5.70-bk2 removes the buffer allocation from resource.c and lets seq_read do it instead.

-Jeff diff -urN linux-2.5.70-bk2/kernel/resource.c linux-2.5.70-bk2-resource-seq-file-cleanup/kernel/resource.c
--- linux-2.5.70-bk2/kernel/resource.c 2003-05-26 21:00:42.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.5.70-bk2-resource-seq-file-cleanup/kernel/resource.c 2003-05-28 19:22:04.000000000 -0400
@@ -71,20 +71,7 @@

static int ioresources_open(struct file *file, struct resource *root)
{
- char *buf = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
- struct seq_file *m;
- int res;
-
- if (!buf)
- return -ENOMEM;
- res = single_open(file, ioresources_show, root);
- if (!res) {
- m = file->private_data;
- m->buf = buf;
- m->size = PAGE_SIZE;
- } else
- kfree(buf);
- return res;
+ return single_open(file, ioresources_show, root);
}

static int ioports_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)