Re: [RFC][CFLART] ipmi procfs bogosity

[Andrew Morton]

Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Indeed, this function is badly written.  In rewriting, I couldn't find a
>  nice function for reading integers from userspace, and the proc_dointvec
>  stuff didn't seem terribly suitable.

We write numbers into profs files all the time.  Is there something
different about the IPMI requirement which makes the approach used by, say,
dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler() inappropriate?
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