Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfoproviders

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Aug 14 2012 - 17:27:16 EST


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:56:49PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Al, does the patch below looks better? If so I'll fix up the rest.

> struct file_operations {
> struct module *owner;
> + struct seq_operations *fdinfo_ops;

IDGI. Why on the earth do you need the whole iterator? All it takes
is show_fdinfo(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f); have ->show() in
your iterator (one going through the files) call that sucker for the
file we are trying to show.

I think you are severely overdesigning that thing...
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