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Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 20:26:26 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
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Subject: Re: network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100]
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John Levon wrote:
> 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


Doubtful -- Al Viro created libfs.c, and understands the basic concept 
of avoiding code duplication :)


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