On Sat, Oct 12, 2002, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:14:38PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, I'm breaking up the big patch into smaller ones, at least for the 
> > simple(r) stuff.
> 
> I'll wait for Johannes to ack any of these before applying them.
> 
> > This one fixes a bug where different names were being used for creation 
> > and removal of the /proc/ entry.
> 
> Any reason to not finally move these files over to driverfs, where they
> now belong?  I remember trying to do this a while ago, but the driverfs
> infrastructure wasn't there, but it looks like the API is now present
> (DRIVER_ATTR() should do what you need, or DEVICE_ATTR() if you want to
> go off of every uhci pci device, I don't remember what these proc files
> did.)

Depends. Those proc entries are merely for debugging.

It's the wrong thing to be used for and I'm not sure it should be in
driverfs either.

It has been discussed a while ago to convert all of that into a
debugging module that can be loaded if the user needs/wants it.

JE



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