Re: network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100]

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 14:19:07 EST


On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:42:52PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:10:25AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > Al Viro has talked about, long term, making this information available
> > through a filesystem. When that happens, your request will have
> > basically been implemented.
>
> It would probably help if some of the basic code needed was wrapped in
> an even more "dumbed-down" API - most of the stuff in say pcihpfs is
> generically useful for this sort of configfs thing.

Hm, like perhaps 'driverfs'? :)

That's where pcihpfs is going to go to, as soon as Pat makes a few more
changes to the API.

thanks,

greg k-h
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