Alan, A little more specifics ? IE; Wan driver, How It helps ?
& Why it won't help much for other stuff ?
> > PS: This is just a very crude idea, not even sure if it is viable
> > with present Kernels.
> I think it is. Certainly if someone came up with a rational format for
> all of /proc, that _didnt_ clash with the existing /proc files I would
> be willing to go for it and to optionally support 'oldproc' files in
> 2.2, and lose them over a couple of years as the tools knew the newer
> formats.
OK, I'll begin to layout a rough draft of the subject.
Hmmm, this is going to be an interesting
ordeal / learning-experience....
> Whoever does it had better get it right however - we don't want to do
> that more than once
You betcha by golly gosh ;-)
Tia, JimL
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My libraries & programs status ( most are here now )
At the time of this writing, I am using.
Linux-2.0.29 , eepro100.c/ v0.24 30/01/97 in kernel.
, ncr53c8xx.c/ v1.14c 08/11/96 in kernel.
Gcc v. 2.7.2 ; binutils-2.6.0.14 ; sysvinit-2.62
ld.so.1.7.14 ; libc.so.5.3.12 ; libc.so.4.7.6
libg++.so.27.1.4 ;
proc-ps 0.99 ; net-tools 1.2.0 ; mount-2.5j
Modules 2.0.0 ; loadkeys 0.89 ;
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