Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports

[Martin Dalecki]

Uz.ytkownik Alan Cox napisa?:
>>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
> 
> Alan

All the cases you encounter above are cases where Linux
leaks a more palatable interface.

/proc/cpuinfo for one could be replaced by dropping syslog
messages at a fixed file in /etc/ during boot - it's static after
all!.

DRI is one of the few XFree86 things which indeed
got born in the linux context. It should in fact run on
top  of either the /dev/agpgard ir /dev/fb device.
/proc/dri is a war... similar to the former /proc agp stuff..

/proc/bus - is not as bad in my opinnion :-).