Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 22 May 2002 11:10:46 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 22 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > ... and while we are at flamewar-mongering, none of these files have any
> > business being in procfs.
>
> That depends on how you define procfs. Linux is not Plan 9. A lot of it
> certainly is going to cleaner with a devicefs and sysctlfs

OK, let me put it that way:

none of these files has any business bringing the rest of procfs along
for a ride and none of them has any reason to use any code from fs/proc/*.c

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