Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:06:03 +0100 | From | Gábor Lénárt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5 PROPOSAL: Replacement for current /proc of shit. |
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:42:36AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > proc(KBUILD_OBJECT, "foo", my_foo, int, 0644); > > > > And with my previous parameter patch: > > PARAM(foo, int, 0444); > > Is this designed to replace sysctl? > > In general we want to support using sysctl and similar features WITHOUT > procfs support at all (of any type). Nice for embedded systems > especially.
Agreed. It would be nice to have always 1:1 relation between sysctl and procfs interface, so you can do EVERYTHING with both of sysctl and via /proc ... Maybe the code should be partly common as much as possible as well.
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