[PATCH 1/1] Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt: create_proc_entry deprecated

From: Fabian Frederick
Date: Mon May 26 2014 - 15:53:38 EST


Linked article in seq_file.txt still uses create_proc_entry which was removed in

80e928f7ebb958
"proc: Kill create_proc_entry()"

This patch adds information for kernel 3.10 and above

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
index a1e2e0d..1fe0ccb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ how the mechanism works without getting lost in other details. (Those
wanting to see the full source for this module can find it at
http://lwn.net/Articles/22359/).

+Deprecated create_proc_entry
+
+Note that the above article uses create_proc_entry which was removed in
+kernel 3.10. Current versions require the following update
+
+- entry = create_proc_entry("sequence", 0, NULL);
+- if (entry)
+- entry->proc_fops = &ct_file_ops;
++ entry = proc_create("sequence", 0, NULL, &ct_file_ops);

The iterator interface

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