Well, hell. If the "/proc is a blight on the face of the planet" ranting that
I've been hearing is just about the *name* /proc, then let's separate the
name issue from the content issue.
The kind of non-per-process information that is now in /proc needs to still
be there for many purposes; autoconfiguration is the one that is bugging
me right now, but cluster management is just as important.
If moving /proc/cpuinfo to /sys/cpuinfo means people will stop trying to make
the cpuinfo information go away, then By all means let's move it.
I want /sys/dmi, too.
I'm willing to write up a proposal for /sys that would migrate the `unclean'
/proc stuff over to ./sys, and I'm willing to write the kernel patches to
implement the renaming.
I'm motivated to attack this right now because it touches the work I'm
doing on kernel autoconfiguration.
(Copied to the linux-kernel mailing list because of a parallel argument
happening there...)
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