Richard Troth wrote: >Perhaps I'm being a purist. >So I pose the question to the group: >Is it okay for kernel code to read plain files for config info?
No, this is not OK; which is why chandev.conf featured prominently in Arjan van de Ven's "How to NOT write kernel drivers" paper at the 2002 Ottawa Linux Symposium ;-) See that paper for details why it is not OK. We've gotten rid of chandev.conf for the 2.6 kernel. Network devices are now configured via sysfs attributes, hopefully abstracted away via a hotplug framework. Bye, Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
