Re: [Yaffs] seq_file for procfs support

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Andre Renaud <andre@ignavus.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> The current /proc/yaffs support for Linux seems to be broken on 4.8, I
> think because of the way read-offsets are dealt with and the limited
> internal buffer (512B). Given that seq_file predates Linux 2.4, would there
> be a problem just dropping support for kernels that predate this, and then
> moving the whole thing over to seq_file, or are there enough legacy
> installations that still require this support?
>

I doubt anyone is using 2.4 these days, but would a big #if work?

#if VERSION_LESS_THAN_X
static struct proc_dir_entry *my_proc_entry;

static char *yaffs_dump_dev_part0(char *buf, struct yaffs_dev *dev)

...
#else

new stuff

#endif

-- Charles


> Thanks,
> Andre
>
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