Re: How to put something in /proc

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 10 2000 - 05:09:46 EST


On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > I need to create a "file" in /proc to monitor some kernel
> > variables from user space. How can I do ? / Where can I
> > get docs ? And how can I do time measurements from
> > inside the kernel ?
>
> Search for proc_register() inside the kernel sources.

_Don't_

proc_register() is dead. Use create_proc_read_entry() instead.

Folks, support of the static procfs entries is gone and it will not be
back. Any initializer for struct proc_dir_entry is a LARTable offense. So
is kmalloc(sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry),...) and its ilk. You do it - you
suffer.

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