Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > I don't have /proc/rtc on my machine, but I do have /dev/misc/rtc, so
> > I don't know where /proc/rtc comes from.
>
> Sorry, my typo - I meant /proc/driver/rtc. The source is
> drivers/char/rtc.c and it does
>
> create_proc_read_entry ("driver/rtc", 0, 0, rtc_read_proc, NULL);
>
> in addition to the binary-data device /dev/rtc (which is in
> /dev/misc/rtc of devfs). The /proc/driver/rtc is the human-readable dump
> of RTC data and I thought it should find its proper place in devfs instead
> of /proc for the same reasons why we moved microcode from /proc/driver to
> /dev/cpu.
I don't see devfs as being suited to text output like
/proc/driver/rtc...
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