[PATCH] seq_file: use proc_create() in documentation

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Fri Dec 04 2009 - 19:42:10 EST


Using create_proc_entry() + ->proc_fops assignment is racy because
->proc_fops will be NULL for some time, use proc_create() to avoid race.
---

Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt | 4 +---
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
index 0d15ebc..a1e2e0d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
@@ -248,9 +248,7 @@ code, that is done in the initialization code in the usual way:
{
struct proc_dir_entry *entry;

- entry = create_proc_entry("sequence", 0, NULL);
- if (entry)
- entry->proc_fops = &ct_file_ops;
+ proc_create("sequence", 0, NULL, &ct_file_ops);
return 0;
}

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