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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sysfs q [was: sysfs ugly timer interface]
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:48:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070323044823.GA8881@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0703230221350.9555@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:24:46AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Mar 22 2007 08:28, Greg KH wrote:
> >> 
> >> > root@MAIN:/home/maxim# cat /sys/devices/system/clockevents/clockevents0/registered
> >> > lapic                F:0007 M:3(periodic) C: 1
> >> > hpet                 F:0003 M:1(shutdown) C: 0
> >> > lapic                F:0007 M:3(periodic) C: 0
> >> > root@MAIN:/home/maxim#   
> >> 
> >> Now... this file needs to die, before 2.6.21 is released. It tries to
> >> bring /proc-like parsing nightmare to sysfs. Kill it before it becomes
> >> part of stable ABI!
> >
> >Eeek!
> 
> Question regarding sysfs files: How would you do something like
> /proc/net/nf_conntrack with sysfs? Have directories named like 0000, 
> 0001, 0002, ..?

I don't know, I've never said that _all_ proc files can move to sysfs.
For some things, like possibly the netfilter stuff, proc files make more
sense.

Were you thinking of moving this file to sysfs?  What does the
information in it represent?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-23  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-16 10:30 [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far Maxim Levitsky
2007-03-16 23:19 ` Len Brown
2007-03-17 23:00   ` Maxim
2007-03-17 23:32     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-12-30  7:50       ` Mike Galbraith
2007-12-30 14:53         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-20 11:54     ` sysfs ugly timer interface (was Re: [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far) Pavel Machek
2007-03-22 15:28       ` Greg KH
2007-03-22 15:41         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-23  1:24         ` sysfs q [was: sysfs ugly timer interface] Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-23  4:48           ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-03-23  6:05             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-16 23:39 ` [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 23:01   ` Maxim
2007-03-16 23:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17  0:04   ` [PATCH] i386: trust the PM-Timer calibration of the local APIC timer Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17  7:22     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-17 13:24     ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-18  8:12     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-18  8:45       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17  1:32   ` [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far Len Brown
2007-03-17  9:56     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 11:05       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 16:52       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 10:32     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-17 13:26       ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-20  4:27         ` Greg KH
2007-03-20  6:30           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-20  9:14           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-20 11:36           ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-20 11:41             ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-17 22:45     ` Maxim
2007-03-20  5:04   ` Lee Revell
2007-03-20  5:36     ` Eric St-Laurent
2007-03-20  9:15       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-20 18:04         ` Andy Lutomirski
2007-03-20 22:58         ` Eric St-Laurent

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