Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4]

[Rob Love]

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:24, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

> Junk like that is called "sysctl" and is a part of userland ABI.

Right.  And I agree 100% that we need to respect that ABI.

Long-term, though, we need to think about a saner home for sysctl's than
procfs.  hch's suggestion of giving them their own filesystem is a good
idea to start with.

Right now, though, I think it is a shining exemplar of sanity to
associate device-related attributes with the device's directory in
sysfs.

	Rob Love


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