Re: /proc guidelines and sysctl

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Date: Sat Jan 08 2000 - 00:47:16 EST


On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Richard Zidlicky wrote:

>
>
> > root:/proc/ide# find /proc/ide
> > /proc/ide
> > /proc/ide/drivers
> > /proc/ide/hdd
> > /proc/ide/ide1
> > /proc/ide/ide1/hdd
> > /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/capacity
> > /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/settings
> > /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/model
> > /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/media
> > /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/identify
> > /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/driver
> > /proc/ide/ide1/model
> > /proc/ide/ide1/mate
> > /proc/ide/ide1/config
> > /proc/ide/ide1/channel
> > /proc/ide/hda
> > /proc/ide/ide0
> > /proc/ide/ide0/hda
> > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/smart_thresholds
> > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/smart_values
> > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/geometry
> > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/cache
> > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/capacity
> > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings
> > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/model
> > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/media
> > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/identify
> > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/driver
> > /proc/ide/ide0/model
> > /proc/ide/ide0/mate
> > /proc/ide/ide0/config
> > /proc/ide/ide0/channel
> >
> > Hell only God know's what they are good for!
> > And there is no userland tool for this. This is the
> > last thing Mark Lord added before ditching ide developement.

And what is the issue, you do not like the new management?

> I use the /proc/ide to find drives and cd-roms during installation
> of my m68k/Q40 distribution. A very simple shell script is enough
> to this. Some of the redundant /proc features allow me to make the
> installation fairly comfortable.
> So I would hope any new solution would give me similar possibilities.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

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