Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751348AbVJQGi7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:38:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751362AbVJQGi7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:38:59 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:57806 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751348AbVJQGi6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:38:58 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: EDAC, core EDAC support code From: Arjan van de Ven To: Doug Thompson Cc: Alan Cox , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051017014845.16415.qmail@web50112.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051017014845.16415.qmail@web50112.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:38:39 +0200 Message-Id: <1129531119.2907.1.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 2.9 (++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 2.8 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 759 Lines: 19 On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 18:48 -0700, Doug Thompson wrote: > > why proc? Again this sounds like a platform sysfs > > thing... > > The plan is to move from /proc to sysfs operations, > info and control. But the core works at this time and > patches will be forth coming once the baseline is in. > We want to make the currently work features "work". that doesn't work that way.. with the /proc stuff you add an api/abi, which you can't get rid of afterwards, so it's important to get that right from the start..... - 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/