From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Love Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:25:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Well, it's not just for /dev/random but also for all in-kernel cosumers > of random numbers, so doing this as a sysctl makes quite a lot of sense. And /dev/random is the user-space abstraction representing the random number generator... > Whether sysctl should be mached into procfs or sysfs or rather be it's > own fs is an entirely different question. Interface-wise the latter > would make most sense. What to do with sysctl's in the long run is a good question. Rob Love ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel