Re: [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd)

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@lst.de)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 07:50:33 EST


On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:48:58AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> a) if devfs is available it provides a regular file whose size can be
> examined by applications and content read/written without much "fuss". In
> particular it is very convenient to say "vi microcode" and examine the
> content directly. If it was a device node then this would have been
> impossible.

What do you think about adding a sysvfs attribute for that instead in
2.5? This seems to be the much more logical interface to me..

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