Re: PROPOSAL: /proc standards (was dot-proc interface [was: /proc

Jan-Benedict Glaw
2001-11-06T22:49:48Z

On Tue, 2001-11-06 15:42:40 -0700, Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
wrote in message <20011106154240.A32249@codepoet.org>:
> On Tue Nov 06, 2001 at 11:33:49PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Tue, 2001-11-06 15:28:26 -0700, Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
> > wrote in message <20011106152826.C31923@codepoet.org>:
> > > On Tue Nov 06, 2001 at 07:24:13PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > > PROCESSOR=0
> > > > VENDOR_ID=GenuineIntel
> >
> > PROCESSOR=1
> > ...
> >
> > > > . /proc/cpuinfo
> > >
> > > I think we have a winner! If we could establish this
> > > as policy that would be _sweet_!
> >
> > What do you expect on a SMP system?
>
> How about something like:
> NUMBER_CPUS=8
> VENDOR_ID_0=GenuineIntel

Well, somebody came up with the idea of having XML in kernel. I'd really
love to see all those single-file-multiple-info files going away. Can't
we have a simple tree using one file per value / one value per file?
Would ease *many* things a lot...

MfG, JBG

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