Messages in this thread | | | From | Rene Rebe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem | Date | Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:47:19 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Sunday 31 December 2006 11:49, David Miller wrote: > From: David Kahn <dmk@flex.com> > Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:11:53 -0800 > > > All we've done is created a trivial implementation for exporting > > the device tree to userland that isn't burdened by the powerpc > > and sparc legacy code that's in there now. > > So now we'll have _3_ different implementations of exporting > the OFW device tree via procfs. Your's, the proc_devtree > of powerpc, and sparc's /proc/openprom > > That doesn't make any sense to me, having 3 ways of doing the same > exact thing and making no attempt to share code at all. > > If you want to do something new that consolidates everything, with the > goal of deprecating the existing stuff, that's great! But with they > way you're doing this, all the sparc and powerpc implementations > really can't take advantage of it. > > Am I the only person who sees something very wrong with this?
Nope you aren't, ACK to a unified user-space export from my side as well.
Yours,
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