Re: [RFC][CFLART] ipmi procfs bogosity

From: Andrew Morton (akpm_at_osdl.org)
Date: 09/01/05

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To: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>

    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?
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