path to speakup control variables?

path to speakup control variables?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

The speakup module used to put of its control variables (e.g. speech
speed) in /proc/speakup/ . To better stick with common practice,
should that go to somewhere in /sys or in /proc/sys/speakup (though
it looked to me like non-mainstream modules can't go there because of
sysctl_check)?

Samuel

Re: path to speakup control variables?

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sunday 2008-06-15 18:44, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Hello,
>
>The speakup module used to put of its control variables (e.g. speech
>speed) in /proc/speakup/ . To better stick with common practice,
>should that go to somewhere in /sys or in /proc/sys/speakup (though
>it looked to me like non-mainstream modules can't go there because of
>sysctl_check)?

For some tasks, neither procfs nor sysfs seem to be the right place.
Which is really odd. The two unwritten rules are

(a) "No new files should go into /proc"

 -> so we use sysfs, we would think

(b) "/sys files have only one value"

 -> that's possibly expensive in terms of dentries and kobjects
    when you think of files with lots of variables like /proc/stat

So we're in a draw for some sort of files...