Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 08:36:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 08:36:24 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:33033 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 08:36:18 -0500 Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 14:36:02 +0100 (CET) From: Dave Jones To: Cc: , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 PROPOSAL: Replacement for current /proc of shit. In-Reply-To: <86.1204971d.291545b9@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 Telford002@aol.com wrote: > > 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. > It would always be possible to build a front end to the /proc file > system. The approach taken by powertweak (http://www..powertweak.org) was to use an XML description of /proc to define types etc. It's worked out quite well, and has the added advantage of being buzzword compliant 8) Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - 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/