Re: [PATCH] modules: sysfs - export: taint, address, size

[Randy Dunlap]

On 01/09/2012 04:44 AM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 08:27, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:44:36 +0100, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> Recent tools do not use /proc to retrieve module information. A few values
>>> are currently missing from sysfs.
>>
>> Well, strace says lsmod still does.  Is libkmod doing something
>> different?
> 
> Yes, kmod used /sys only.
> 
> There is current code to read the size, to provide the 'lsmod' output,
> but that will be removed.
> 
>> Should we be deprecating /proc/modules?
> 
> In the longer run, yes.

Deprecate it for udev?  OK.
what about other users of it?

> We still aim for leaving everything that isn't process- or
> namespace-related (which, with some stretch is always process-related)
> alone, and use /sys for it.


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~Randy
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