From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262331AbTLWTaX (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:30:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262324AbTLWT3x (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:29:53 -0500 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([141.154.95.10]:52708 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262331AbTLWT3D (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:29:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] From: Rob Love To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20031223192427.GC4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> 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> <20031223192427.GC4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1072207737.6015.26.camel@fur> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-8) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:28:57 -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 14:24, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > Junk like that is called "sysctl" and is a part of userland ABI. Right. And I agree 100% that we need to respect that ABI. Long-term, though, we need to think about a saner home for sysctl's than procfs. hch's suggestion of giving them their own filesystem is a good idea to start with. Right now, though, I think it is a shining exemplar of sanity to associate device-related attributes with the device's directory in sysfs. Rob Love