Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 May 2002 04:38:31 +0100 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 57 |
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At 17:51 07/05/02, Dave Jones wrote: >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
Ok, will get that. Someone else emailed me a url and I tried that earlier on (ages ago it seems) it said version 0.0.4 and it displayed a lot of crap on a 2.5.14 running kernel. Certainly it bears no resemblance to what /proc/ide/via has to say and it certainly bears no resemblance to reality... )-: i hope...
> > >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 does indeed (if implemented). Agreed if Martin were to change to sysctl with /proc interface great, it would just mean /proc/ide becomes /proc/sys/ide, nothing against that....
> > 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.
Probably... I agree sysctl is great. I use it in ntfs myself. (-: And i think the /proc/sys is very nice... And for people who don't like it or who don;'t compile /proc fs they can use _sysctl...
Cheers,
Anton
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