Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 May 2002 17:30:33 +1000 | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports |
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On Wed, 22 May 2002 10:54:25 -0400 (EDT) Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > XFree86 uses /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/bus/pci, /proc/mtrr, /proc/fb, /proc/dri > > and even such goodies as /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes > > ... and while we are at flamewar-mongering, none of these files have any > business being in procfs.
Let it never be said that you lack courage 8)
Let's sort this out at the kernel summit: dev vs. driverfs. vs proc vs sysctl vs boot params vs. module params vs netlink
Rusty. -- there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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