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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: show dma_mask bits in /sys
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:49:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081023194924.GA10531@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081023193652.GC8060@colo.lackof.org>

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 01:36:52PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:39:23AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:44:12AM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> > > 
> > > Lastly, /sys seems to have over run even /proc. On an rx2600 (ia64):
> > > grundler@gsyprf3:/usr/src/linux-2.6$ find /sys ! -type d | wc
> > >    6288    6296  264893
> > 
> > Is this causing some kind of problem for your systems?
> 
> Nope. Just an observation on the "forest" (vs individual "trees").
> 
> > /sys shows far more information than /proc does, so of course it would
> > be larger in quantity.
> 
> Yes - and /sys is better organized (hierarchial in general).
> But it's getting harder to find stuff because there is so much now.
> Any comments on adding DMA attributes (e.g. dma_mask_bits) to /sys?

Sorry, wasn't paying attention.  All I ask is that if you do add new
sysfs files, you document them in the proper format in
Documentation/ABI/

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-23 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08 23:02 [PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info Yinghai Lu
2008-10-09 21:18 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-09 21:27   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-09 21:35     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-09 21:51       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-09 22:55         ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-09 23:05           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10  2:40             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10  4:56               ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10  6:08                 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10  6:32                   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10  7:32                     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-12  7:16                       ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-10 22:45               ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-14  6:50                 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-12  7:11             ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23  1:45               ` [PATCH] pci: show dma_mask bits in /sys Yinghai Lu
2008-10-23  3:28                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-23  4:19                   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-23  6:44                   ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23  8:38                     ` Rolf Eike Beer
2008-10-23 15:39                     ` Greg KH
2008-10-23 18:37                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-23 19:36                       ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23 19:49                         ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-10-24 10:50                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-01 17:10                       ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23  6:48                 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23  6:51                   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-23 19:28                     ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-10  2:40     ` [PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10  2:59       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10  2:40   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10 15:48     ` Jesse Barnes
2008-10-10 16:19       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 16:28         ` Jesse Barnes
2008-10-10 16:33         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-10 16:46           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 17:12             ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-10 17:18               ` Roland Dreier
2008-10-12  7:38                 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-12  7:20       ` Grant Grundler

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