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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:59:21 +0530
From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
To: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:07:25AM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> ... 
> Yes, that I learnt by looking at mounts_open(), the problem is how
> do I get the statctr_pentry (or statctr_group if you like) in
> the open method ? It seems to me that in order to do this, we
> need the following -
> 
> 1. An exported wrapper create_statctr_entry() around 
>    create_seq_entry() code that sticks the statctr_group pointer into
>    proc_entry->data.
> 2. Some way to get the proc entry from the inode in statctr_open()
>    and stick it to seq_file->private for seq_file methods to use.
> 
> Is this understanding correct or is there a better and simpler
> way to do this ?
>

Christoph,
I have used the above mentioned method now, alongwith the PDE macro to get
the proc_dir_entry from the inode.  I'll post the patch after testing it..

Thanks,
Kiran
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