Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964879AbVJMWwe (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:52:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964878AbVJMWwe (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:52:34 -0400 Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.48]:57369 "EHLO mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964876AbVJMWwd (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:52:33 -0400 Message-ID: <434EE534.6010500@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:52:36 +0100 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050820) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grzegorz Kulewski CC: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, posting@blx4.net, vsu@altlinux.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Remove /proc/via entry References: <43146CC3.4010005@gentoo.org> <58cb370e05083008121f2eb783@mail.gmail.com> <43179CC9.8090608@gentoo.org> <58cb370e050927062049be32f8@mail.gmail.com> <433B16BD.7040409@gentoo.org> <58cb370e0509290027404f5224@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 798 Lines: 22 Hi, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: >>> 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). Per Bart's suggestion, I've created a user-space app which shows identical data (and doesn't even rely on the via82cxxx IDE driver). http://www.reactivated.net/software/viaideinfo/ So, I think we should be clear to drop /proc/ide/via now. Daniel - 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/