Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:50:33 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd) |
| |
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:48:58AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > a) if devfs is available it provides a regular file whose size can be > examined by applications and content read/written without much "fuss". In > particular it is very convenient to say "vi microcode" and examine the > content directly. If it was a device node then this would have been > impossible.
What do you think about adding a sysvfs attribute for that instead in 2.5? This seems to be the much more logical interface to me..
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |