Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261652AbUJXUW0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:22:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261654AbUJXUWZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:22:25 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.194]:9840 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261652AbUJXUWQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:22:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=SgUJKST00YthL2VKUF3+N6yTwt4zBIJXfJfH9nbNRhxV1t2RTND13U4yFgqplTZT9HyggJpY8odbyF5WRqr3YcTTjdtauyys8KLxF39XX+Krrt3ZshZD0nnrh91C/x4adnJyFTC2oEy2S3hMrMJzJTXSjK6O+n523KwmYuBNmH8= Message-ID: <58cb370e04102413156543b72e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:15:26 +0200 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: James Cloos Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] ide-2.6 update Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <58cb370e04102405081d62bf40@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1149 Lines: 28 On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:48:58 -0700, James Cloos wrote: > Are all of the data displayed in /proc/ide/piix et al now available > in sysfs? If so, 'twould've been useful for a small utility -- a All these data can be obtained from user-space, no need for bloating sysfs. > la lsscsi(8) -- that can format that data like the /proc/ide files > to have been released before dropping the /proc files.... > It is a regression to loose convenient access to the controllers' > current configs.... http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~bzolnier/atapci/ released > 2 years ago :) works fine but probably needs some cut'n'paste updates Most of these /proc files were buggy / inaccurate and keeping them had real maintenance cost (hpt366 bug, triflex bug etc.) with absolutely no added gain in debugging problems (raw PCI config gives much more info). and yes, this should've been done 2 years ago... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/