From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andre Schmidt <andre@osku.de>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Simple system stats.
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 13:07:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191102120700.GA297440@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191102125105.0b403a3b@ALDOS>
On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 12:51:05PM +0100, Andre Schmidt wrote:
> Hello kernel space,
>
> user space webmonkey here, tinkering on my home desktop setup and spelunking way too many rabbit holes... damn you source code! ;P
>
> The other day i got frustrated with re-implementing parsing and calculation of /proc/stat and /proc/meminfo for my visual user interface experiments (in various languages), so i "created"* a kernel module that helps me with that (https://github.com/oskude/proc_topstat).
>
> But i could not get swap info in the kernel module, cause - i guess - it's not exported?
> So i wonder, would/could upstream EXPORT_SYMBOL(si_swapinfo)?
> If yes/maybe, where/how should i propose such change?
Symbols and functions are only exported if an in-kernel-tree module
needs it. Sorry.
What's wrong with parsing the existing exports of this value as-is?
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-02 11:51 Simple system stats Andre Schmidt
2019-11-02 12:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-11-02 13:05 ` Andre Schmidt
2019-11-02 13:13 ` Greg KH
2019-11-02 13:56 ` Andre Schmidt
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