Re: [PATCH] add buddyinfo /proc entry

[Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>]

Greg KH wrote:
 > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:31:44PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
 >
 >> Not _another_ proc entry!
 >
 > Yes, not another one.  Why not move these to driverfs, where they
 > belong.

Could you show us how this particular situation might be laid out in a 
driverfs/kfs/gregfs tree?

It's great that you keep suggesting this, but we have another 
chicken-and-egg problem.

<SOAPBOX>
The problem with driverfs today is that it isn't worth it for _me_ to
use it to just get this one, single thing.  If I used driverfs right 
now, the only thing that I would get out of it would be ... buddyinfo! 
How is it worth my while to use it on a shared machine where most 
people probably won't be mounting driverfs, or _want_ it mounted as 
the default?
</SOAPBOX>

 > (ignore the driverfs name, it should be called kfs, or some such
 > thing, as stuff more than driver info should go there, just like
 > these entries.)

If even its most ardent supporters don't like its name...

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com