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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:49:12 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
CC: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
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       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Support multiple controllers
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Daniel Drake wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
>> I would prefer /proc/via
>> to vanish because it complicates driver needlessly (could you do
>> this in separate patch?).
> 
> 
> I'm working on a user-space app to provide the same info. It's nearly 
> there but lacking some timing info.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions for how I can compute the value of via_clock 
> in userspace? (i.e. some equivalent of system_bus_clock())

A sysfs read-only attribute, associated with the PCI device?

Of course, procfs sure seems a whole lot easier some days...

	Jeff


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