admittedly more nitpickery, but it strikes me as a bit confusing
that you can use create_proc_read_entry() to create writable proc
files, since that routine is simply a wrapper for create_proc_entry
that passes the mode untouched and unexamined.
that's why you can get stuff like this from drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c
...
p = create_proc_read_entry(name, S_IFREG | S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
sht->proc_dir, proc_scsi_read, shost);
if (!p) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Failed to register host %d in"
"%s\n", __FUNCTION__, shost->host_no,
sht->proc_name);
return;
}
p->write_proc = proc_scsi_write_proc;
...
it just seems to abuse the semantics to use a routine called
"create_proc_read_entry" to create a writable file. but that's just
me.
rday
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