Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4]

[Rob Love]

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Well, it's not just for /dev/random but also for all in-kernel cosumers
> of random numbers, so doing this as a sysctl makes quite a lot of sense.

And /dev/random is the user-space abstraction representing the random
number generator... 

> Whether sysctl should be mached into procfs or sysfs or rather be it's
> own fs is an entirely different question.  Interface-wise the latter
> would make most sense.

What to do with sysctl's in the long run is a good question.

	Rob Love


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