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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_IDE_PROC_FS: /sys is not full replacement of /proc
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:40:22 +0200
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Hi,

On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> May be I miss something obvious but most information that was available 
> in /proc/ide is missing under /sys. At the very least, Mandriva hardware 
> detection expects /proc/ide/hdX/model; nothing close is under /sys.

It is really better to obtain some information using IOCTLs (i.e. SMART
data) but for other like "model" it makes perfect sense to add them to /sys.

> Are there any plans to extend IDE /sys interface to provide full range of 
> information from /proc? Alternatively I appreciate description (or pointer to 
> thereof) how to get information that was available under /proc/ide 
> without /proc/ide :)

Could you please add the information that you find missing to the existing
infrastructure in ide.c (ide_dev_attrs[] table)?

Thanks,
Bart