Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 May 2002 15:53:24 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports |
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Uz.ytkownik Alan Cox napisa?: >>The Xfree86 people are actually sane and hold up the BSD tradition. >>They don't even use /proc/bus and killed early /proc/agpgart usage! >>Quite the reverse is true. > > > 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 > > Alan
All the cases you encounter above are cases where Linux leaks a more palatable interface.
/proc/cpuinfo for one could be replaced by dropping syslog messages at a fixed file in /etc/ during boot - it's static after all!.
DRI is one of the few XFree86 things which indeed got born in the linux context. It should in fact run on top of either the /dev/agpgard ir /dev/fb device. /proc/dri is a war... similar to the former /proc agp stuff..
/proc/bus - is not as bad in my opinnion :-).
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