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

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:22:14PM -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Monday 10 March 2008 22:06, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Demonstrate some advantage and I will think about it.

Again, as your code has nothing to do with "processes", please do not
add new files to /proc.

As you are a filesystem, why not /sys/fs/ ?

It ends up with smaller code than procfs stuff as well, a good and nice
advantage.

thanks,

greg k-h
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