Name collisions aren't a big issue, but certainly a consideration. A
big motivation for me is scalability... what happens when you load a
bunch of drivers, all of which dump straight into /proc root? You get a
huge ls listing. It's bad enough when you have tons of processes (and
tons of pid inodes) in /proc. I don't want drivers to start doing that
too.
IMHO driver-specific /proc entries should go under directory
/proc/driver/$DRIVER. If there exists a general /proc interface for a
specific capability, only then should it go elsewhere. That at least
encourages driver authors to consider a sane /proc namespace which
scales with independent decisions made by other driver authors.
Regards,
Jeff
--
Americans' greatest fear is that America will turn out to have been a
phenomenon, not a civilization.
-- Shirley Hazzard, "Transit of Venus"
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