[OpenAFS-devel] [PATCH 1.3.81] use seq_file interface for Linux /proc

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Christopher Allen Wing wrote:

> openafs 1.3.81 crashes the Linux kernel when you try to view the file
> /proc/fs/openafs/CellServDB. Linux provides a helper interface for "list
> output generators" in /proc called seq_file; here is a patch which
> converts the existing /proc/fs/openafs/CellServDB to use it (and fixes the
> crash):
>
>
> 	http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~wingc/openafs/patches/openafs-1.3.81-seqfile.patch
>
>
> seq_file is available in Linux 2.6, as well as basically all modern 2.4
> kernels. I added an autoconf test to check for its presence.
>
> I commented out the existing /proc interface with '#if 0'; this either
> needs to be fixed or else just removed if seq_file is not available.
> (Since basically every 2.4 and 2.6 kernel in use today will have seq_file,
> it may not be a big deal)

Ew. Patches against 1.3.81.

Confirm the version on the CVS head is still broken for you, since it 
works nothing like the 1.3.81 version?