According to the list of API changes in the 2.6 kernel series on LWN the .owner
field of struct proc_dir_entry
was removed in the 2.6.30 Kernel.
So here s a couple of questions:
- Was it really ever necessary or useful to set this field?
- Has the field just been moved somewhere else, or permanently deleted?
I ask the first question because while the LKMPG set s this field in many of it s examples, procfs_example.c from the Kernel Documentation never does.