Alex,
I now have most of your procfs patch ported to the latest kernels, at
http://gtf.org/garzik/kernel/files/UNTESTED/proc_cleanup_19991026-2.3.24-pre1.patch.gz
Note this is a --cvs patch-- and thus not easily applied by patch.
It compiles against 2.3.24 pre1, and probably(tm) works.
The next step in my plan for feeding patches to Linus is to test the
cleanup of fs/proc/* and send that to Linus -- EXCEPT temporarily keep
the proc_net_register function. (it will go away later) If I don't do
that, I am forced to send all the procfs net code updates too.
After that goes in, the remaining drivers and the networking code will
be cleaned up. Most of the networking code is already updated as you
will see from the patch above.
TODO:
* merge the rest of your procfs patch, mainly drivers/* is left now
* go through and audit each file to make sure a create_xxx is followed
by remove_xxx. Many times it is not, which will cause an oops as you
know
* ...the other TODO items you posted about in the "updates to procfs"
thread
