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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cleaning up /proc/xen
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:59:48 -0500
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On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 17:09 +0900, NAHieu wrote: 
> The good thing about /proc is that we do not need to register any
> major/minor stuffs (which is very annoying), like what we do with
> device.

It's much less annoying if you just don't rely on static major/minor
numbers and require udev.

> So I vote for moving things to under /sys. But hold on, that would not
> be compatible with others OS like *BSD, correct ?

There's also plan9 and other things to consider.  I reckon it's better
to just implement first class drivers in each OS.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> 
> Thanks,
> Hieu.
>