| | From | David Lang <> | | Date | Mon, 6 May 2002 10:48:54 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 55 | |
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> - Remove some redundant info about the model and channel number from
> /proc/ide. Remove the binary entries not helpful to the user, and not used
> by any program and redundant to corresponding ioctls.
Martin, how do you know it isn't used by any program?
changing /proc stuff 'becouse it's availabe elsewhere' is not a good idea,
people writing shell scripts do not nessasarily have access to ioctls.
you must have missed the proc wars of past kernels, but in general it's
not a good idea to tinker with anything in /proc unless it is a
significant improvement and 'redundant to corresponding ioctls' is not a
significant improvement.
David Lang
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