Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:26:17 +0200 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Remove /proc/ide/via entry |
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Hi,
On 9/29/05, Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> wrote: > Hi Al, > > (btw, original subject was wrong, I actually meant /proc/ide/via) > > Al Viro wrote: > > Care to explain > > * where to get equivalent information? > > I don't think there is anywhere else that provides the whole range, but I do > question the usefulness of most of it :)
Exactly, all the important information is available through other sources (dmesg, lspci and of course /proc/ide/hd?/*) and configuration of timing registers etc. shouldn't be of user concern (and it is available from PCI configuration space so code to parse it can be easily moved to user-space).
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