From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?]
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 12:16:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3A020D.49865BB8@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201071904.g07J4Wf02751@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201071119520.28000-100000@segfault.osdlab.org>
Patrick Mochel wrote:
>
> ...
> "What do you mean, 'don't use proc'?" (Since I already had done it).
>
> He pointed out that it was old and crufty, and already over-abused. He
> suggested that I write my own fs to do it.
>
> So I did. It was easy. I blatantly ripped off ramfs, and it worked.
>
One little problem I have with driverfs (and with the whole "everything
is a filesystem" idea) is that the infrastructure just isn't ready for
it yet.
For example, driverfs_create_dir(). That has no driverfs-specific
content at all. It's 100% mucking with VFS internals.
The more cut-n-paste-filesystems we create, the harder it all gets
to maintain. We need a library layer which simplifies and abstracts
these operations. (Says me, looking at you-know-who :)
-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-07 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-04 11:32 Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] Martin Knoblauch
2002-01-04 22:17 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-05 17:00 ` Paul Jakma
2002-01-05 17:14 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 18:05 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 18:11 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 18:50 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 18:58 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 18:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-08 8:04 ` [kbuild-devel] " Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-08 18:36 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 8:25 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-07 18:58 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:06 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 19:19 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:45 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-08 14:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-08 14:00 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-07 19:19 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 19:29 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 20:36 ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 22:03 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 22:28 ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 23:59 ` Greg KH
2002-01-08 8:36 ` Kevin Easton
2002-01-11 21:52 ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 23:25 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-01-07 17:55 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 19:04 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-07 19:26 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:41 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-07 19:58 ` Paul Jakma
2002-01-07 19:33 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 20:16 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2002-01-07 20:13 David Brownell
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