From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262328AbUEFONL (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 10:13:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262388AbUEFOMx (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 10:12:53 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:19972 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262380AbUEFOJk (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 10:09:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:09:33 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Sourav Sen , Matt_Domsch@dell.com, matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.6 PATCH] Exposing EFI memory map Message-ID: <20040506150933.A17112@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Matthew Wilcox , Sourav Sen , Matt_Domsch@dell.com, matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <003801c43347$812a1590$39624c0f@india.hp.com> <20040506114414.A14543@infradead.org> <20040506115919.GZ2281@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040506115919.GZ2281@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from willy@debian.org on Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:59:19PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:59:19PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > It's not exactly modifiable. I'm not sure what benefit we'd gain from > splitting this file into dozens. a consistant interface. If we support gazillion random formats in sysfs it's no gain at all over the old procfs mess.