Re: [RFC] Get rid of all procfs stuff for PCI subsystem.

Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:56:44 -0800


On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:59:28PM +0800, Stanley Wang wrote:
> Hi, Greg
> When did I try to remove all procfs stuff from pci_hotplug_core.c,
> I found I could only cut little codes off.

But you cut out everything that was there, right? There wasn't much.

> So I suggest:
> How about to get rid of all procfs stuff for PCI subsystem?
> It could reduce about 700 lines codes from the kernel.
> I think we could get all information from sysfs, right?
> But it may break some user mode utilities.

If you look, a lot of it is now under a config option to just not enable
it at all, which helps out a lot.

thanks,

greg k-h
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