From: Jonathan Corbet Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:34:52 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Document SEQ_SKIP X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.0.0-8.9~34852 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22c36d18c668db1a8d92a9a47e09857974f6a49b;p=mirror_ubuntu-disco-kernel.git Document SEQ_SKIP 2.6.26 adds a SEQ_SKIP return value for the seq_file show() function; update the documentation to match. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt index 7fb8e6dc62bf..0ab92c260894 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt @@ -122,8 +122,7 @@ stop() is the place to free it. } Finally, the show() function should format the object currently pointed to -by the iterator for output. It should return zero, or an error code if -something goes wrong. The example module's show() function is: +by the iterator for output. The example module's show() function is: static int ct_seq_show(struct seq_file *s, void *v) { @@ -132,6 +131,12 @@ something goes wrong. The example module's show() function is: return 0; } +If all is well, the show() function should return zero. A negative error +code in the usual manner indicates that something went wrong; it will be +passed back to user space. This function can also return SEQ_SKIP, which +causes the current item to be skipped; if the show() function has already +generated output before returning SEQ_SKIP, that output will be dropped. + We will look at seq_printf() in a moment. But first, the definition of the seq_file iterator is finished by creating a seq_operations structure with the four functions we have just defined: