Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758653AbYJWTxC (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:53:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754514AbYJWTwv (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:52:51 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:42825 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753499AbYJWTwu (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:52:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:49:24 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Grant Grundler Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Yinghai Lu , Jesse Barnes , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: show dma_mask bits in /sys Message-ID: <20081023194924.GA10531@kroah.com> References: <20081009213551.GC25780@parisc-linux.org> <86802c440810091451y4a3caceg1abaa75464c40a72@mail.gmail.com> <20081009225533.GB1914@colo.lackof.org> <48EE8E55.4000009@kernel.org> <20081012071157.GA20056@colo.lackof.org> <48FFD726.2010600@kernel.org> <20081023032833.GK26094@parisc-linux.org> <20081023064412.GD31186@colo.lackof.org> <20081023153923.GB4011@kroah.com> <20081023193652.GC8060@colo.lackof.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081023193652.GC8060@colo.lackof.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1226 Lines: 31 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 01:36:52PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:39:23AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:44:12AM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: > > > > > > Lastly, /sys seems to have over run even /proc. On an rx2600 (ia64): > > > grundler@gsyprf3:/usr/src/linux-2.6$ find /sys ! -type d | wc > > > 6288 6296 264893 > > > > Is this causing some kind of problem for your systems? > > Nope. Just an observation on the "forest" (vs individual "trees"). > > > /sys shows far more information than /proc does, so of course it would > > be larger in quantity. > > Yes - and /sys is better organized (hierarchial in general). > But it's getting harder to find stuff because there is so much now. > Any comments on adding DMA attributes (e.g. dma_mask_bits) to /sys? Sorry, wasn't paying attention. All I ask is that if you do add new sysfs files, you document them in the proper format in Documentation/ABI/ thanks, greg k-h -- 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/