looking for simple module/driver programming examples in source tree

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Tue May 3 08:38:48 EDT 2011


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?

rday

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