Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932146AbVI2H0Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:26:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932147AbVI2H0X (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:26:23 -0400 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.204]:12514 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932146AbVI2H0X convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:26:23 -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:content-disposition:references; b=L3vVjJ/jkgFkzvxv1eTJywNy/0i27VbzsXnB6zvQ4XFaZxzw9c/Tp87mkVIM/7tpZT9EbodNwBpv5wOZI5uFa+7y6+JgDm2KmlUdl3eb24B9adx8xtlTBhO+ELetFNdeICNkWlJDBs6e7wZT3Dg82wDejbV4z3XO8y5kom29X+s= Message-ID: <58cb370e0509290026655a7bb1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:26:17 +0200 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Daniel Drake Subject: Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Remove /proc/ide/via entry Cc: Al Viro , jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, posting@blx4.net, vsu@altlinux.ru In-Reply-To: <433B2081.9050607@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <43146CC3.4010005@gentoo.org> <58cb370e05083008121f2eb783@mail.gmail.com> <43179CC9.8090608@gentoo.org> <58cb370e050927062049be32f8@mail.gmail.com> <433B16BD.7040409@gentoo.org> <20050928223718.GB7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <433B2081.9050607@gentoo.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 25 Hi, On 9/29/05, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi Al, > > (btw, original subject was wrong, I actually meant /proc/ide/via) > > Al Viro wrote: > > Care to explain > > * where to get equivalent information? > > I don't think there is anywhere else that provides the whole range, but I do > question the usefulness of most of it :) Exactly, all the important information is available through other sources (dmesg, lspci and of course /proc/ide/hd?/*) and configuration of timing registers etc. shouldn't be of user concern (and it is available from PCI configuration space so code to parse it can be easily moved to user-space). Bartlomiej - 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/