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From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sysctl interface to bootflags?
Date: 09 Oct 2001 11:21:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1002640876.1103.21.camel@thanatos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110091613490.32557-100000@Appserv.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110091613490.32557-100000@Appserv.suse.de>

Hi.  I looked at your code and I saw that it depended
on ACPI.  Since ACPI doesn't work on my machine, I 
thought I should look for another solution.  However,
Alan now tells me that what I want to do can already
be done via /dev/nvram.

Thanks to both of you.
Thomas

On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 10:15, Dave Jones wrote:
> On 9 Oct 2001, Thomas Hood wrote:
> 
> > Would it be a good idea to do this using the sysctl infrastructure?
> > If so, can someone please suggest an appropriate pathname for
> > the flag files?  How about "/proc/sys/BIOS/bootflags/diagnostics"
> > and "/proc/sys/BIOS/bootflags/PnP-OS" ?
> > If this is a bad idea, someone please stop me before I waste my
> > time implementing it.
> 
> Last week, I pointed you at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/sbf.c
> Can you give a reason why this needs to be done in kernel space ?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Dave.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-09 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-09 14:01 sysctl interface to bootflags? Thomas Hood
2001-10-09 14:15 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-09 15:21   ` Thomas Hood [this message]
2001-10-09 15:34     ` Dave Jones
2001-10-09 15:50       ` Thomas Hood
2001-10-09 15:52         ` Dave Jones
2001-10-09 15:56           ` Thomas Hood
2001-10-09 16:53             ` Dave Jones
2001-10-09 14:18 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-09 15:35   ` Thomas Hood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-09 22:48 Thomas Hood
2001-10-10 14:05 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-09  3:29 Thomas Hood
2001-10-09  2:56 Thomas Hood
2001-10-10  6:46 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-10 12:37   ` Thomas Hood

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