From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Remove /proc/ide/via entry Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:26:17 +0200 Message-ID: <58cb370e0509290026655a7bb1@mail.gmail.com> References: <43146CC3.4010005@gentoo.org> <58cb370e05083008121f2eb783@mail.gmail.com> <43179CC9.8090608@gentoo.org> <58cb370e050927062049be32f8@mail.gmail.com> <433B16BD.7040409@gentoo.org> <20050928223718.GB7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <433B2081.9050607@gentoo.org> Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.205]:4325 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932145AbVI2H0V convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:26:21 -0400 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x37so584509nfc for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:26:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <433B2081.9050607@gentoo.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Drake Cc: Al Viro , jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, posting@blx4.net, vsu@altlinux.ru Hi, On 9/29/05, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi Al, > > (btw, original subject was wrong, I actually meant /proc/ide/via) > > Al Viro wrote: > > Care to explain > > * where to get equivalent information? > > I don't think there is anywhere else that provides the whole range, but I do > question the usefulness of most of it :) Exactly, all the important information is available through other sources (dmesg, lspci and of course /proc/ide/hd?/*) and configuration of timing registers etc. shouldn't be of user concern (and it is available from PCI configuration space so code to parse it can be easily moved to user-space). Bartlomiej