Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:39:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:39:35 -0400 Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.94]:37903 "EHLO probity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:39:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:42:52 +0100 From: John Levon To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100] Message-ID: <20020801174252.GA58488@compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <20020731212426.GA3342@schottelius.org> <3D492531.9030905@mandrakesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D492531.9030905@mandrakesoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi X-Scanner: exiscan *17aJyR-00047S-00*hQbiD0BUf2s* (Manchester Computing, University of Manchester) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 924 Lines: 25 On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:10:25AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Al Viro has talked about, long term, making this information available > through a filesystem. When that happens, your request will have > basically been implemented. It would probably help if some of the basic code needed was wrapped in an even more "dumbed-down" API - most of the stuff in say pcihpfs is generically useful for this sort of configfs thing. As more and more minifs's appear (they are trivially easy to write after all) we're likely to see more duplication of this code, and the resultant missing bug fix propogation regards john -- "The simpler it is, the harder it is." - Tim Van Holder - 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/