Re: [PATCH] mmc: print message if a card supports secure erase/trim

Steven Rostedt
2015-01-27T17:48:17Z

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:38:36 +0100
Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote:

> Anyway, I like(d) Linux because it didn't had a splash screen and used
> to spit out all types of information on the screen where it could be
> easily seen or found (in contrast other OS which try to hide all
> technical details from users).

Yes, I like those days too, but as you say, times are changing, and we
must adapt.

>
> Of course, times are changing, including the amount of stuff printed on
> screen. But I still find it much much easier to grep on the output of
> dmesg than to search through thousands files in sysfs. Even if that can
> be done with grep too (kind of). But it's much more complicated because
> grep doesn't connect the file name with the content, so you need more
> complicated stuff to combine both in order to search for and find
> something in sysfs.

Come on, it's not that more complex. If you know the name of the file,
just do:

find /sys -print -name <name> -exec cat {} \;

And you'll get the data you want.

Basically, what you are saying is "printk is more convenient for me and
I do not care about the other cases that make much more sense with
sysfs". The kernel does not work that way.

-- Steve