Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161192AbVKRUjd (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:39:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161193AbVKRUjd (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:39:33 -0500 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.198]:41860 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161183AbVKRUjb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:39:31 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lZ/tkvT39q+bi/bb0Xdz8FZqj0WNpImNVTsUS8UcJcS48+FXaozAEcrQCzh2w+Mx3+rLFoCId/ny+kENQAZbb9vOdMAc6V8EMNiIB0NWTXNc9Lfy89D2Nn3JMpZZgG6U5oEAWGrX97xjUNU0tA2E+Pe33V1THoOobV8JD5mECdM= Message-ID: <58cb370e0511181239n369c9a88hd9292055e4d03d92@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:39:29 +0100 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Daniel Drake Subject: Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Remove /proc/via entry Cc: Grzegorz Kulewski , jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, posting@blx4.net, vsu@altlinux.ru In-Reply-To: <434EE534.6010500@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> <58cb370e0509290027404f5224@mail.gmail.com> <434EE534.6010500@gentoo.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 23 On 10/13/05, Daniel Drake wrote: > 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. patch applied, thanks for working on this - 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/