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On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:29:28PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > [aia21@drop hda]$ ideinfo > bash: ideinfo: command not found > Obviously distros haven't caught up with this development. )-: > Care to give me a URL? A quick google for "ideinfo Linux download" didn't > bring up anything looking relevant. Can't find where I got it from, and it seems to have fallen off google. I put up the last version I had (which I hacked up a bit) at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/cruft/ide-info-0.0.5-dj.tar.gz > >The parsing gunk we have for /proc/ide is fugly, and should have been > >done with sysctls from day one imo. > > I like text parsing. must.. resist.. /proc ascii/bin... holywar.. (besides, sysctl interface gives you ascii in /proc/sys/) > It is not performance critical and makes info human > readable... Whether existing text parsers are any good or not, I don't > care, write a better one if you don't like the existing one That's likely exactly the reason we ended up with the dungheap we have now. Rewriting the parser when we already have a usable sysctl interface seems to have no gain over the existing mess to me. Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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