building ppc_htab?
Tom Rini
trini at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Mar 18 04:41:37 EST 2005
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:34:14AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Mar 16, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:57:24AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any reason not to make the following change so we build
> >> ppc_htab only on PPC STD MMU?? This would also require fixing up
> >> fs/proc/proc_misc.c.
> >
> >I could have sworn, but maybe my memory sucks, that we no longer messed
> >w/ fs/proc/proc_misc.c for any of the PPC-specific things (since in 2.6
> > you can do all of that proc magic in your 'driver').? So this patch
> > would make a great deal of sense to do, and if it lacks what I'm
> >talking
> > about, we should do that part as well :)
>
> I'm not exactly clear on what you are talking about. There is this
> snippet in fs/proc/proc_misc.c:
Crap :(
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
> {
> extern struct file_operations ppc_htab_operations;
> entry = create_proc_entry("ppc_htab", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR,
> NULL);
> if (entry)
> entry->proc_fops = &ppc_htab_operations;
> }
> #endif
>
> Are you suggesting this should live elsewhere? I'm not that familiar
> with proc code.
Yes, it should live in ppc_htab.c. See the CONFIG_SYSCTL stuff already
in ppc_htab.c for l2crvec.
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Tom Rini
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