[PATCH] teach seq_file to discard entries

Allow ->show() return SEQ_SKIP; that will discard all
output from that element and move on.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/seq_file.h b/include/linux/seq_file.h
index 1da1e6208a0a..d65796dc26d9 100644
--- a/include/linux/seq_file.h
+++ b/include/linux/seq_file.h
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ struct seq_operations {
         int (*show) (struct seq_file *m, void *v);
 };
 
+#define SEQ_SKIP 1
+
 int seq_open(struct file *, const struct seq_operations *);
 ssize_t seq_read(struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
 loff_t seq_lseek(struct file *, loff_t, int);