On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 08:38:48AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2011, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 07:45:54AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > once you see that living, breathing example, what more would you > > > need to know about how to have your module/driver create a simple > > > read-only proc file? > > > > You need to know that if your module/driver ever creates a simple > > read-only proc file, they will be flamed to a crisp on lkml when > > they submit it :) > > > > Seriously, don't ever create a new proc file, it's not anything > > anyone should ever be doing anymore. > > so have proc/seq file been massively deprecated in favour of sysfs > attribute files, then? Yes, that happened about 8 years ago :) No driver should ever add a proc file, it's that simple. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
