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From: Tim Jansen <tim@tjansen.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 PROPOSAL: Replacement for current /proc of shit.
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 12:47:08 +0100
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On Saturday 03 November 2001 00:31, you wrote:
> Hmm, I'd argue that a GUI tool would be fairly useless without knowing what
> the values meant anwyay, to give help, in which case you might as well know
> the types.

Take, as an example, the compression module parameter of the PWC (Philips 
Webcam) driver. Currently you can specify a value between 0 for uncompressed 
and 3 for high compression. If a GUI shows me that only values between 0 and 
3 are allowed I could guess that I have to enter "3" for high compression 
without searching for the documentation. It would be even better if I could 
select four strings, "none", "low", "medium" and "high". 

I do see the advantages of using strings in proc, and maybe there is another 
solution: keep the type information out of the proc filesystem and save it 
in a file similar to Configure.help, together with a description for a file. 
I just don't know how to ensure that they are in sync. 

bye...
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