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SubjectRe: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Remove /proc/via entry
On 9/29/05, Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Daniel Drake wrote:
>
> > This entry adds needless complication to the driver as it requires the use of
> > global variables to be passed into via_get_info(), making things quite ugly
> > when we try and make this driver support multiple controllers simultaneously.
> >
> > This patch removes /proc/via for simplicity.
>
> Is similar data available from sysfs?
>
> As a user of this controller, I think that if it is not then this patch
> should be changed to export it or should be dropped. The data from that
> file is really helpfull in debugging problems (for example related to bad
> cables or breaking disks/cdroms).

Could you please give some details (which data is useful)?

Bartlomiej
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