Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:01:23 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mike.miller@hp.com, alexn@dsv.su.se,
       dwalker@mvista.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1: new create_proc_entry() users
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:50:50 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:

> > profile-likely-unlikely-macros
> > page-owner-tracking-leak-detector
> > cciss-procfs-updates-to-display-info-about-many-volumes
> 
> Guys, create_proc_entry() is slightly racy in case of modular code and
> proc_create() was invented to fix it. Eventually all create_proc_entry()
> users will be converted to proc_create(), so please do it for new code.

The first two patches are -mm-only debug patches - they won't be going into
mainline.

I'll make a note that
cciss-procfs-updates-to-display-info-about-many-volumes.pach needs
updating, thanks.

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