Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759919AbYBSTYt (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:24:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755179AbYBSTYi (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:24:38 -0500 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:60205 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751026AbYBSTYh (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:24:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:24:47 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Karl Dahlke Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Where to put adapters Message-ID: <20080219192447.GB11948@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080119080148.eklhad@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080119080148.eklhad@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 820 Lines: 17 On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:01:48AM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote: > Now that notifiers are in, (yay!), people are going to start writing adapters > for visually and motor impaired individuals. > I suggest we place them in drivers/adapters in the source tree, > and I suggest they put their virtual files in the directory /proc/adapters, > which would be created via fs/proc/root.c as part of the /proc file system. /proc is for processes (and was in the past used for all sort of crap). So without knowing what an adapter is in this context /proc seems to be a bad choice. Sam -- 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/