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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:04:41 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Tim Jansen <tim@tjansen.de>
Cc: Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 PROPOSAL: Replacement for current /proc of shit.
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On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 09:46:19PM +0100, Tim Jansen wrote:
> On Monday 05 November 2001 17:49, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> > I think of the tagged list of n-tuples as a kind of ASCII
> > representation of a simple struct. One could of course create a
> > general ASCII representation of a C struct, and no doubt it's been
> > done innumerable times, but I don't think that helps in this
> > application.
> 
> But how can you represent references with those lists? Try to model the 
> content of /proc/bus/usb/devices with them.

The contents of /proc/bus/usb is the usbdevfs file system.  It does not
fit into the current /proc model, or discussion.

It's only mounted at that location, for lack of a better place :)

And no, "usbdevfs" has _nothing_ to do with "devfs", it was a bad name
choice, in hindsight.

thanks,

greg k-h
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