From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262283AbTLWT1Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:27:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262190AbTLWT1S (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:27:18 -0500 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([141.154.95.10]:50148 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262074AbTLWT0B (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:26:01 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] From: Rob Love To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20031223192226.A10239@infradead.org> References: <20031223002126.GA4805@kroah.com> <20031223002439.GB4805@kroah.com> <20031223002609.GC4805@kroah.com> <20031223131523.B6864@infradead.org> <20031223180127.GA14282@kroah.com> <20031223191634.A8914@infradead.org> <1072207183.6015.19.camel@fur> <20031223192226.A10239@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1072207555.6015.22.camel@fur> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-8) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:25:56 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Well, it's not just for /dev/random but also for all in-kernel cosumers > of random numbers, so doing this as a sysctl makes quite a lot of sense. And /dev/random is the user-space abstraction representing the random number generator... > Whether sysctl should be mached into procfs or sysfs or rather be it's > own fs is an entirely different question. Interface-wise the latter > would make most sense. What to do with sysctl's in the long run is a good question. Rob Love