Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Mar 11 2008 - 01:09:27 EST


On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:46:16PM -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Set ramback to flush mode:
>
> echo 1 >/proc/driver/ramback/<devname>

/proc is so 1990's. As your code has nothing to do with processes,
please don't add new files in /proc/. sysfs is there for you to do
stuff like this.

> Show ramback status:
>
> cat /proc/driver/ramback/<devname>
>
> Progress monitor:
>
> watch -n1 cat /proc/driver/ramback/<devname>

Use debugfs for stuff like debug info like this.

thanks,

greg k-h
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