From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266498AbUHOGNh (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:13:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266507AbUHOGNh (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:13:37 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:59042 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266498AbUHOGNg (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:13:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:11:53 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Dave Jones Cc: dsaxena@plexity.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Transition /proc/cpuinfo -> sysfs Message-Id: <20040814231153.24a4f8e7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040811235929.GB32468@redhat.com> References: <20040811224117.GA6450@plexity.net> <20040811231314.GA32106@redhat.com> <20040811234245.GA7721@plexity.net> <20040811235929.GB32468@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones wrote: > > > My understanding is that goal is to > > make /proc slowly return to it's original purpose (process-information) > > and move other data out into sysfs. > > I don't think thats a realistic goal. It may be realistic if we try hard enough, but I don't think it's a desirable one at this time. I'd prefer that I, Deepak and everyone else be spending cycles on higher-priority things than these patches. Sorry.