Re: [RFC][CFLART] ipmi procfs bogosity

[Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>]

Andrew Morton wrote:

> Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote:
>  
>
> > Indeed, this function is badly written.  In rewriting, I couldn't find a
> > nice function for reading integers from userspace, and the proc_dointvec
> > stuff didn't seem terribly suitable.
> >    
> We write numbers into profs files all the time.  Is there something
> different about the IPMI requirement which makes the approach used by, say,
> dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler() inappropriate?
>  
Ok, that's probably better, and this probably belongs in 
/proc/sys/dev/ipmi.  This is new enough that it doesn't matter, I don't 
think any one is using it yet.
Patch is attached.

-Corey

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