proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:06:01 +0000 (14:06 +0100)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 1 May 2013 21:29:42 +0000 (17:29 -0400)
commit4a520d2769beb736ba2bd084b8293ce148a1a7ae
tree023a339c1f2ecf7bd1b051a725f4c720f1908c0f
parentb25f774d889e3856c6d81ffc679912f8bdef6adc
proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent

Supply an accessor function for getting the private data from the parent
proc_dir_entry struct of the proc_dir_entry struct associated with an inode.

ReiserFS, for instance, stores the super_block pointer in the proc directory
it makes for that super_block, and a pointer to the respective seq_file show
function in each of the proc files in that directory.

This allows a reduction in the number of file_operations structs, open
functions and seq_operations structs required.  The problem otherwise is that
each show function requires two pieces of data but only has storage for one
per PDE (and this has no release function).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
cc: Jerry Chuang <jerry-chuang@realtek.com>
cc: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxtram95@gmail.com>
cc: YAMANE Toshiaki <yamanetoshi@gmail.com>
cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
drivers/scsi/megaraid.c
drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c
drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c
fs/proc/generic.c
include/linux/proc_fs.h