Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 20:21:36 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Mitch Bradley <wmb@firmworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem
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On Jan 1 2007 08:10, Mitch Bradley wrote:
>> 
>> We don't generally export binary representation
>> files out of /proc or /sys, in fact this rule I believe is layed
>> our precisely somewhere at least in the sysfs case.
>> 
> pci-sysfs exports PCI config space in binary.

cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.0/subsystem_device 
0x0c60

Can't find the binary thing. But I've seen it before -- esp.
/proc/usb when it existed. It's really sad, because you can learn a
lot from the text representations. Having to figure out what the
proper utility and all its options is often takes some time.


	-`J'
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