Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:15:26 +0200 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCHES] ide-2.6 update |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:48:58 -0700, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote: > Are all of the data displayed in /proc/ide/piix et al now available > in sysfs? If so, 'twould've been useful for a small utility -- a
All these data can be obtained from user-space, no need for bloating sysfs.
> la lsscsi(8) -- that can format that data like the /proc/ide files > to have been released before dropping the /proc files.... > It is a regression to loose convenient access to the controllers' > current configs....
http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~bzolnier/atapci/
released > 2 years ago :)
works fine but probably needs some cut'n'paste updates
Most of these /proc files were buggy / inaccurate and keeping them had real maintenance cost (hpt366 bug, triflex bug etc.) with absolutely no added gain in debugging problems (raw PCI config gives much more info).
and yes, this should've been done 2 years ago... - 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/
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