From: Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] per-driver filesystems made easy
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 15:03:38 -0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205121503.38502.norbert@linuxnetworks.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0205111527440.22306-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
On Saturday 11 May 2002 19:53, Alexander Viro wrote:
> It's a toy driver - PCI side is completely trivial (I wanted to get
> temperature readings from VIA-based motherboard without screwing
> with lm-sensors). I've never done PCI drivers before and didn't
> want to mess with anything more complex than that.
>
> It exports a small tree (it's trivial to extend adding more
> readings, etc., but again, that's not the point). Right now all it
> got is 3 files - readings from 3 sensors. You say
> # mount -t devvia pci0:7.4 /mnt
> and you've got /mnt/temp{1,2,3}.
I am wondering if this information isn't something that should be
located in a subdirectory of /proc, shouldn't it? And perhaps it
could be extended to support more chipsets by loading additional
modules.
Just my 2ct ;-)
Norbert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-12 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-11 20:53 [RFC] per-driver filesystems made easy Alexander Viro
2002-05-12 16:03 ` Norbert Sendetzky [this message]
2002-05-12 15:01 ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-12 18:47 ` Norbert Sendetzky
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