Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754192AbZK0JYN (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:24:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754166AbZK0JYM (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:24:12 -0500 Received: from smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.33]:3504 "EHLO smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754158AbZK0JYL (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:24:11 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 511 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:24:11 EST Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:15:29 +0100 From: Erik Mouw To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: remove docbook and example Message-ID: <20091127101529.63b2baa5@nij0285> In-Reply-To: <20091127070331.GF26327@x200.malnet.ru> References: <20091127070331.GF26327@x200.malnet.ru> Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.18.3; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/Pv+wi/m2+PKm5QfJ1ypG7un"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1720 Lines: 56 --Sig_/Pv+wi/m2+PKm5QfJ1ypG7un Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:03:31 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > Example is outdated, it still uses old ->read_proc interfaces and > "fb" example is plain racy. > There are better examples all over the tree. Agreed, it was written back in the early 2.4 days. Time moves on. > Docbook itself says almost nothing about /proc > and contain quite a number of simply wrong facts, e.g. device nodes > support. What it does is describing at great length interface which > are going to be removed. I always had plans to update the documentation but never could set myself to do it. > There are Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt in exchange. Great, updated/newer documentation. Just remove the procfs documentation and examples. > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw Regards, Erik --=20 Erik Mouw -- mouw@nl.linux.org GPG key fingerprint: D6AC 7F15 A26E C5C4 62E0 4A58 FCF9 551C 9B48 B68D --Sig_/Pv+wi/m2+PKm5QfJ1ypG7un Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksPmLEACgkQ/PlVHJtIto3yQACeN9BvoO6smVrw5hSyFlR6wWzj kcYAoITjjWPGmmzu0wQ+ikpC3oqC4mnz =O9cS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Pv+wi/m2+PKm5QfJ1ypG7un-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/