Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:45:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:45:32 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:37137 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:45:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3C38EF83.5000003@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:44:51 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King CC: Richard Gooch , Matt Dainty , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] DevFS support for /dev/cpu/X/(cpuid|msr) In-Reply-To: <20020106181749.A714@butterlicious.bodgit-n-scarper.com> <200201061934.g06JYnZ15633@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <3C38BC6B.7090301@zytor.com> <200201062108.g06L8lM17189@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <3C38BD32.6000900@zytor.com> <20020106213619.C7654@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Russell King wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:10:10PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>The existence of a CPU creates /dev/cpu/# and registering a node >>replicates across the /dev/cpu directories. >> > > And, thus, we decend into more /proc crappyness. > > After *lots* of discussion and months of waiting, it was decided between > Alan, David Jones, Jeff Garzik, and other affected parties that > /proc/sys/cpu/#/whatever would be a reasonable. It has even appeared on > lkml a couple of times in the past. > Ummm... this isn't about /proc. -hpa - 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/