Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports

Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Thu, 23 May 2002 17:30:33 +1000

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.

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   there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too
   many doers quoting their contemporaries.  -- Larry McVoy
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