From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: <Telford002@aol.com>
Cc: <tim@tjansen.de>, <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 PROPOSAL: Replacement for current /proc of shit.
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 14:36:02 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111031433260.28761-100000@Appserv.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86.1204971d.291545b9@aol.com>
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 Telford002@aol.com wrote:
> > solution: keep the type information out of the proc filesystem and save it
> > in a file similar to Configure.help, together with a description for a
> file.
> It would always be possible to build a front end to the /proc file
> system.
The approach taken by powertweak (http://www..powertweak.org) was to
use an XML description of /proc to define types etc. It's worked out
quite well, and has the added advantage of being buzzword compliant 8)
Dave.
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-03 13:06 [PATCH] 2.5 PROPOSAL: Replacement for current /proc of shit Telford002
2001-11-03 13:36 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2001-11-03 14:20 ` Tim Jansen
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2001-11-01 10:32 Rusty Russell
2001-11-01 10:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-01 16:49 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-01 17:06 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-11-01 12:06 ` Tim Jansen
2001-11-01 18:34 ` James Simmons
2001-11-02 1:42 ` Rusty Russell
2001-11-02 1:56 ` Erik Andersen
2001-11-02 11:44 ` Padraig Brady
2001-11-02 9:11 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-02 12:39 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-02 11:57 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-02 13:55 ` Keith Owens
2001-11-02 15:08 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-04 5:36 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-11-02 12:46 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-11-02 2:20 ` Rusty Russell
2001-11-02 13:59 ` Tim Jansen
[not found] ` <20011103103106.7eb6098b.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2001-11-03 11:47 ` Tim Jansen
2001-11-03 23:44 ` Rusty Russell
2001-11-04 1:40 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-04 2:08 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-11-04 12:30 ` Tim Jansen
2001-11-04 13:36 ` Daniel Kobras
2001-11-04 14:13 ` Tim Jansen
2001-11-05 16:49 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-11-05 20:46 ` Tim Jansen
2001-11-05 23:04 ` Greg KH
2001-11-05 22:19 ` Tim Jansen
2001-11-05 0:12 ` Rusty Russell
2001-11-05 3:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-05 22:48 ` Rusty Russell
2001-11-06 10:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-06 15:46 ` Theodore Tso
2001-11-07 23:35 ` Rusty Russell
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