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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:15:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: sysctl interface to bootflags?
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On 9 Oct 2001, Thomas Hood wrote:

> Would it be a good idea to do this using the sysctl infrastructure?
> If so, can someone please suggest an appropriate pathname for
> the flag files?  How about "/proc/sys/BIOS/bootflags/diagnostics"
> and "/proc/sys/BIOS/bootflags/PnP-OS" ?
> If this is a bad idea, someone please stop me before I waste my
> time implementing it.

Last week, I pointed you at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/sbf.c
Can you give a reason why this needs to be done in kernel space ?

regards,

Dave.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.suse.de/~davej
| SuSE Labs

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