seq_file: add function to write binary data

seq_write() can be used to construct seq_files containing arbitrary data.
Required by the gcov-profiling interface to synthesize binary profiling
data files.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/seq_file.h b/include/linux/seq_file.h
index 004f3b3342c5..0c6a86b79596 100644
--- a/include/linux/seq_file.h
+++ b/include/linux/seq_file.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ int seq_release(struct inode *, struct file *);
 int seq_escape(struct seq_file *, const char *, const char *);
 int seq_putc(struct seq_file *m, char c);
 int seq_puts(struct seq_file *m, const char *s);
+int seq_write(struct seq_file *seq, const void *data, size_t len);
 
 int seq_printf(struct seq_file *, const char *, ...)
         __attribute__ ((format (printf,2,3)));