Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751349AbWEWPGU (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 11:06:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751348AbWEWPGU (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 11:06:20 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:63875 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750753AbWEWPGT (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 11:06:19 -0400 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing From: Alan Cox To: Simon Oosthoek Cc: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Herman Elfrink In-Reply-To: <44732162.6080107@ti-wmc.nl> References: <44731733.7000204@ti-wmc.nl> <20060523073851.39c3b5fe@localhost.localdomain> <44732162.6080107@ti-wmc.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:20:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1148397601.25255.83.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 744 Lines: 16 On Maw, 2006-05-23 at 16:51 +0200, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > > Use of /proc for an API is no longer desirable. Please rewrite. > > - > > hmm, ok, I'm not sure this will happen anytime soon (being a rather low > priority thing, which is also the reason it's not submitted as patch to > the kernel and not signed off), but what is currently the desirable method? sysfs will let you provide the same information in a much more structured manner, and it will do most of the hard work for you as well. - 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/