From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] ide-2.6 update Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:15:26 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <58cb370e04102413156543b72e@mail.gmail.com> References: <58cb370e04102405081d62bf40@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:34553 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261621AbUJXUQ3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:16:29 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.199]) by zeus.kernel.org (8.12.11/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i9OKGRA1019504 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:16:28 -0700 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 77so355238rnk for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:15:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: James Cloos Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:48:58 -0700, James Cloos wrote: > Are all of the data displayed in /proc/ide/piix et al now available > in sysfs? If so, 'twould've been useful for a small utility -- a All these data can be obtained from user-space, no need for bloating sysfs. > la lsscsi(8) -- that can format that data like the /proc/ide files > to have been released before dropping the /proc files.... > It is a regression to loose convenient access to the controllers' > current configs.... http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~bzolnier/atapci/ released > 2 years ago :) works fine but probably needs some cut'n'paste updates Most of these /proc files were buggy / inaccurate and keeping them had real maintenance cost (hpt366 bug, triflex bug etc.) with absolutely no added gain in debugging problems (raw PCI config gives much more info). and yes, this should've been done 2 years ago...