Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751363AbWEWPJl (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 11:09:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751362AbWEWPJl (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 11:09:41 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.58]:51852 "EHLO ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751335AbWEWPJk (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 11:09:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing From: Steven Rostedt 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 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:09:32 -0400 Message-Id: <1148396972.21012.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 802 Lines: 24 On Tue, 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 is the new interface into the kernel. /proc is for processes only (besides the old stuff). Read up on: Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt and Documentation/kobject.txt -- Steve - 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/