On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:31:12AM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > >If there are many users than a self made print once is worth it >we can use the ctl_table->data pointer for this, some thing like: > >int nr_pdflush_was_printed; > >@@ -1095,11 +1095,9 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { > .extra1 = &zero, > }, > { >- .procname = "nr_pdflush_threads", >- .data = &nr_pdflush_threads, >- .maxlen = sizeof nr_pdflush_threads, >- .mode = 0444 /* read-only*/, >- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, >+ .data = &nr_pdflush_was_printed, >+ .procname = "nr_pdflush_threads", >+ .mode = 0444 /* read-only */, >+ .proc_handler = proc_obsolete, > }, > > >+/* notice associated proc deprecated */ >+int proc_deprecated(struct ctl_table *table, int write, >+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos, ) >+{ >+ if (*ctl_table->data) { >+ printk(KERN_WARNING "%s exported in /proc is deprecated\n", >+ table->procname); >+ *ctl_table->data = 0; >+ } >+ return -ENOSYS; >+} But this time you add another variable nr_pdflush_was_printed. So remove variable nr_pdflush_threads does not make sense. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html