Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932154AbVI2H1j (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:27:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932156AbVI2H1j (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:27:39 -0400 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.203]:15347 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932147AbVI2H1i convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:27:38 -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=VuLUqvrj9uS16rsd4lBX2QtJ4mkXYuPQZGXi+61vvtiCfKm+Pjpr8HiPKTpgJBflipm552jj1WVRNcXE4cjTm0fnab3WNGLQyukUSW+FO61uP2ruFjZRWDJwCv46+p3gatb8Oy+WlkA+nrtFdh0JvKe2j7Z17awudxTE5Hy7yB0= Message-ID: <58cb370e0509290027404f5224@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:27:37 +0200 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Grzegorz Kulewski Subject: Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Remove /proc/via entry Cc: Daniel Drake , jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, posting@blx4.net, vsu@altlinux.ru In-Reply-To: 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> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1019 Lines: 24 On 9/29/05, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Daniel Drake wrote: > > > This entry adds needless complication to the driver as it requires the use of > > global variables to be passed into via_get_info(), making things quite ugly > > when we try and make this driver support multiple controllers simultaneously. > > > > This patch removes /proc/via for simplicity. > > Is similar data available from sysfs? > > As a user of this controller, I think that if it is not then this patch > should be changed to export it or should be dropped. The data from that > file is really helpfull in debugging problems (for example related to bad > cables or breaking disks/cdroms). Could you please give some details (which data is useful)? 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/