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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:50:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030114135033.A15280@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301141145370.1241-100000@einstein31.homenet>; from tigran@veritas.com on Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:48:58AM +0000

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..


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-14 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301131851060.9994-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2003-01-14  9:34 ` [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd) Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 10:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-14 11:48     ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 11:54       ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 12:50       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-01-14 16:32         ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 16:50           ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-01-14 15:59             ` Patrick Mochel
2003-01-14 17:31               ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 17:29             ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 17:40               ` Dave Jones
2003-01-24  6:19                 ` Tigran Aivazian

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