I didn't get a reply from the author yet. Not sure how to proceed from there but just in case I've build a debdiff too. (My first one, please feel free to rip it apart and reuse the pieces :).
The patch itself seems rather benign to me. Just two lines changed:
I didn't get a reply from the author yet. Not sure how to proceed from there but just in case I've build a debdiff too. (My first one, please feel free to rip it apart and reuse the pieces :).
The patch itself seems rather benign to me. Just two lines changed:
For the "create_proc_entry" line see www.kernel. org/doc/ htmldocs/ procfs- guide.html# regularfile
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Quote: "To create a file in the root of the procfs, use NULL as parent parameter"
For the second change "remove_proc_entry" there is no explicit mention of NULL parent pointers in procfs-guide, but checking the source at git.kernel. org/?p= linux/kernel/ git/torvalds/ linux-2. 6.git;a= blob;f= fs/proc/ generic. c#l752 git.kernel. org/?p= linux/kernel/ git/torvalds/ linux-2. 6.git;a= blob;f= fs/proc/ generic. c;#l277
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reveals that (no longer exported) proc_root is used internally if parent is NULL.
So, as far as I can tell this patch has little potential for side effects.