From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:50:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:50:18 -0500 Received: from 12-231-249-244.client.attbi.com ([12.231.249.244]:57867 "HELO kroah.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:50:15 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:56:44 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Stanley Wang Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , PCI_Hot_Plug_Discuss Subject: Re: [RFC] Get rid of all procfs stuff for PCI subsystem. Message-ID: <20030128215644.GA7382@kroah.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:59:28PM +0800, Stanley Wang wrote: > Hi, Greg > When did I try to remove all procfs stuff from pci_hotplug_core.c, > I found I could only cut little codes off. But you cut out everything that was there, right? There wasn't much. > So I suggest: > How about to get rid of all procfs stuff for PCI subsystem? > It could reduce about 700 lines codes from the kernel. > I think we could get all information from sysfs, right? > But it may break some user mode utilities. If you look, a lot of it is now under a config option to just not enable it at all, which helps out a lot. thanks, greg k-h