Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?]

[Andrew Morton]

Patrick Mochel wrote:
> 
> ...
> "What do you mean, 'don't use proc'?" (Since I already had done it).
> 
> He pointed out that it was old and crufty, and already over-abused. He
> suggested that I write my own fs to do it.
> 
> So I did. It was easy. I blatantly ripped off ramfs, and it worked.
> 

One little problem I have with driverfs (and with the whole "everything
is a filesystem" idea) is that the infrastructure just isn't ready for
it yet.

For example, driverfs_create_dir().  That has no driverfs-specific
content at all.  It's 100% mucking with VFS internals.

The more cut-n-paste-filesystems we create, the harder it all gets
to maintain.  We need a library layer which simplifies and abstracts
these operations.  (Says me, looking at you-know-who :)

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