Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:41:53 +0200 | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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david parsons wrote: > > 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?
No it wasn't.
What about other stuff: net-utils and plenty other friends?
> 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.
What about just this: Think TWICE before inventing ANY new interface?
> (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. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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