On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 01:56:24PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:42:23PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > 
> >     struct proc_entry_raw foo_pe_raw = {
> >             .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> >             .name = "foo",
> >             .mode = 0644,
> >             .read_proc = foo_read_proc,
> >             .data = foo_data,
> >             .parent = foo_parent,
> >     };
> > 
> >     pde = create_proc_entry(&foo_pe_raw);
> >     if (!pde)
> >             return -ENOMEM;
> > 
> >    where "struct proc_entry_raw" is cut down version of "struct 
> > proc_dir_entry"
> 
> Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww
> 
> Please, please no.  Especially not .parent.  If anything, let's add a
> helper saying "it's all set up now".  And turn create_proc_entry()
> into a macro that would pass THIS_MODULE to underlying function and
> call that helper, so that simple cases wouldn't have to bother at all.

People are setting ->data after create_proc_entry():

drivers/zorro/proc.c:
   110  static int __init zorro_proc_attach_device(u_int slot)
   111  {
   112          struct proc_dir_entry *entry;
   113          char name[4];
   114  
   115          sprintf(name, "%02x", slot);
   116          entry = create_proc_entry(name, 0, proc_bus_zorro_dir);
   117          if (!entry)
   118                  return -ENOMEM;
   119          entry->proc_fops = &proc_bus_zorro_operations;
   120          entry->data = &zorro_autocon[slot];
   121          entry->size = sizeof(struct zorro_dev);

If create_proc_entry is a macro doing what you suggest (am I right?)

        #define create_proc_entry(name, mode, parent)
        ({
                struct proc_dir_entry *pde;

                pde = __create_proc_entry(name, mode, parent, THIS_MODULE);
                if (pde)
                        mark_proc_entry_ready(pde);
                pde;
        })

there is still a problem because we want it to be equivalent to

        pde = create_proc_entry(...);
        if (!pde)
                return -ENOMEM;
        pde->proc_fops = ...;
        pde->data = ...;
        mark_proc_entry_ready(pde);

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