Re: /proc filesystem code cleanup

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@nic.ott.hookup.net)
Fri, 27 Sep 1996 09:56:31 -0400 (EDT)

> I am working with on implementing /proc support on a driver and
> noticed that each subsystem seems to implement their interface to
> the proc code a bit differently. Only the SCSI devices seem to
> have any sort of uniform proc interface, but it is still very
> SCSI specific.

I disagree with you - the SCSI (and net code) are _NOT_ generic...
heck they really shouldn't be part of the /proc code! The /proc
system ALREADY has a generic interface, but it is not used :-(

IMHO, all code should register/unregister a /proc entry from somewhere
other than the proc code. Only the "system" stuff should be anywhere
near the base /proc code - and then it should likely be in separate
files.

> It does not look too difficult to make the code more uniform and
> generic. We should be able to reduce the code a bit, since parts
> of the code are duplicated, with slight variances.

Good luck - somebody (I forget - you?) posted some patches for
/proc a while back to clean it up. Perhaps you should check the
archives for this.

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