Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:27:37 +0200 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Remove /proc/via entry |
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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)?
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