From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where to put adapters, /proc is cool
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:45:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4951.1203479134@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:39:45 EST." <20080119143945.eklhad@comcast.net>
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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 stuff under /dev for virtual files and similar.
For starters, look at /dev/null, /dev/kmsg, all the dm/md stuff in /dev/mapper,
all the PTY stuff.... etc etc...
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 19:39 Karl Dahlke
2008-02-19 19:55 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-20 3:45 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
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