From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100]
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 20:26:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D49D1B2.2010201@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020801174252.GA58488@compsoc.man.ac.uk
John Levon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:10:25AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>
>>Al Viro has talked about, long term, making this information available
>>through a filesystem. When that happens, your request will have
>>basically been implemented.
>
>
> It would probably help if some of the basic code needed was wrapped in
> an even more "dumbed-down" API - most of the stuff in say pcihpfs is
> generically useful for this sort of configfs thing.
>
> As more and more minifs's appear (they are trivially easy to write after
> all) we're likely to see more duplication of this code, and the
> resultant missing bug fix propogation
Doubtful -- Al Viro created libfs.c, and understands the basic concept
of avoiding code duplication :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-02 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-31 21:24 network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100] Nico Schottelius
2002-08-01 12:00 ` Gianni Tedesco
2002-08-01 12:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-01 17:42 ` John Levon
2002-08-02 0:26 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-08-02 19:19 ` Greg KH
2002-08-04 20:12 ` Nico Schottelius
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