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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Remove /proc/via entry
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:52:36 +0100
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To: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
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Hi,

Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
>>> As a user of this controller, I think that if it is not then this patch
>>> should be changed to export it or should be dropped. The data from that
>>> file is really helpfull in debugging problems (for example related to 
>>> bad
>>> cables or breaking disks/cdroms).

Per Bart's suggestion, I've created a user-space app which shows identical 
data (and doesn't even rely on the via82cxxx IDE driver).

http://www.reactivated.net/software/viaideinfo/

So, I think we should be clear to drop /proc/ide/via now.

Daniel