Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:59:21 +0530 | From | Ravikiran G Thirumalai <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1 of 2] Scalable statistics counters |
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:07:25AM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > ... > Yes, that I learnt by looking at mounts_open(), the problem is how > do I get the statctr_pentry (or statctr_group if you like) in > the open method ? It seems to me that in order to do this, we > need the following - > > 1. An exported wrapper create_statctr_entry() around > create_seq_entry() code that sticks the statctr_group pointer into > proc_entry->data. > 2. Some way to get the proc entry from the inode in statctr_open() > and stick it to seq_file->private for seq_file methods to use. > > Is this understanding correct or is there a better and simpler > way to do this ? >
Christoph, I have used the above mentioned method now, alongwith the PDE macro to get the proc_dir_entry from the inode. I'll post the patch after testing it..
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