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From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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	Hello Dave ,

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > 	And what is there to replace /proc/ide ?  I see no other facility
> > 	in /proc to do the job .  Again am I missing something here ?
> 99% of everything done by /proc/ide/ can be done in userspace by parsing
> /proc/bus/pci. The remaining 1% can be done with ioctls.
	Hmm ,  I see there is some info in ide .  But I don't see it as
	being very setable .  OK ,  I am beginning to see what you are
	speaking of .  ide looks like it wasn't completed to me .

> The info exposed by /proc/scsi may be exposed by ioctls also, (in which
> case, that too can be done entirely in userspace), however, I'm not sure
> everything shown there is accessable by means other than proc parsing.
	Not sure either ,  And I am sure you would have more idea than
	I .  I like scsi's completeness & setability .
	Thank you for filling me in .  JimL

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