Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: USB device allocation | Date | 10 Oct 1999 13:48:55 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.05.9910081936460.32297-100000@ns.snowman.net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@ns.snowman.net> wrote: >On 7 Oct 1999, david parsons wrote: > >> I certainly don't; /proc is fast enough even for the various >> 386s I run Linux on, and if I don't want to use those cycles >> I just won't mount /proc. > > And then discover that the latest version of ps doesn't >work...
Has kmemps even been supported in recent years?
If a useful thing goes into the kernel and the developers of userland tools abandon the old-style interfaces in favor of the new interface, I'm not going to blame the kernel when I take that new interface out and the tools go belly-up.
(And thats one of the nice things about devfs instead of some hypothetical ``do devfs, but break the interface so that it's not usable without some large expensive daemon'' alternative; it may be a new interface, but it's backwards-compatable with the previous interface so I can disable it without stomping all over userland.)
____ david parsons \bi/ The only use for a "break the interface" replacement \/ is that it would get the devices registry into the kernel so a devfs patch could be done against that.
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