From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761955AbYBTDpx (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:45:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756096AbYBTDpi (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:45:38 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:41687 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752148AbYBTDph (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:45:37 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Karl Dahlke Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Where to put adapters, /proc is cool In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:39:45 EST." <20080119143945.eklhad@comcast.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20080119143945.eklhad@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1203479134_762P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:45:34 -0500 Message-ID: <4951.1203479134@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1203479134_762P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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... --==_Exmh_1203479134_762P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHu6JecC3lWbTT17ARAmgLAJ0bZ2wx6H05VyLRz2qu7KbHpDDaIQCfaZNy q4fTC0ZrTb1BoM1kjifH0HM= =9UFu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1203479134_762P--