Re: Where to put adapters, /proc is cool

2008-02-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:39:45 EST, Karl Dahlke said: > Really, /proc is the only place for these virtual files that interact > directly with the kernel and/or its modules; > I just wanted a fixed place under /proc for adapters to live, > like sys ttys scsi net, and so on. There's an awful lot of s

Re: Where to put adapters, /proc is cool

2008-02-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:39:45 -0500 Karl Dahlke wrote: > > So without knowing what an adapter is in this context /proc > > seems to be a bad choice. > > The best explanation might be an example. > I use my Jupiter speecha dapter all day, every day. > It basically sends text to a speech synthesizer

Where to put adapters, /proc is cool

2008-02-19 Thread Karl Dahlke
> So without knowing what an adapter is in this context /proc > seems to be a bad choice. The best explanation might be an example. I use my Jupiter speecha dapter all day, every day. It basically sends text to a speech synthesizer. It also has some virtual files. /proc/adapters/jupiter/synth can

Re: Where to put adapters

2008-02-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 19 2008 08:01, Karl Dahlke wrote: > >Now that notifiers are in, (yay!), people are going to start writing adapters >for visually and motor impaired individuals. >I suggest we place them in drivers/adapters in the source tree, Umph, that sounds a bit generic. Network cards are sometimes ref

Re: Where to put adapters

2008-02-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:01:48AM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote: > Now that notifiers are in, (yay!), people are going to start writing adapters > for visually and motor impaired individuals. > I suggest we place them in drivers/adapters in the source tree, > and I suggest they put their virtual files

Where to put adapters

2008-02-19 Thread Karl Dahlke
Now that notifiers are in, (yay!), people are going to start writing adapters for visually and motor impaired individuals. I suggest we place them in drivers/adapters in the source tree, and I suggest they put their virtual files in the directory /proc/adapters, which would be created via fs/proc/r