Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 22 May 2002 10:54:25 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 22 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > The Xfree86 people are actually sane and hold up the BSD tradition.
> > They don't even use /proc/bus and killed early /proc/agpgart usage!
> > Quite the reverse is true.
>
> XFree86 uses /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/bus/pci, /proc/mtrr, /proc/fb, /proc/dri
> and even such goodies as /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes

... and while we are at flamewar-mongering, none of these files have any
business being in procfs.

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