Re: procfs problems
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
On 15 Apr 1997, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > Those of you interested in discussing design flaws with the current procfs
> > filesystem, take a look at
> >
> > http://www.anime.net/~goemon/procfs.html
> >
> > I invite comments.
> Well regarding your /proc/cpuinfo format, I think we could fix this
> problem by just making sure that the very first line of the cpuinfo
> holds the port name.
>
> Something like:
>
> /proc/cpuinfo:
> port : {i386,alpha,sparc,ppc,mips}
>
> And then, if people want to parse any of the extra information, they
> should know the architecture specific information on the CPU before
> attempting to parse it.
It should be standardized. Right now there's *no* standardization in the
kernel, which makes parsing the information the biggest pain in the ass.
Having to write 5 different parsers for the same information is *not* the
way to go.
Note that I'm not necessarily complaining about that each architecture has
its own information, I'm complaining about crap like this:
Alpha:
BogoMIPS : 163.57
x86:
bogomips : 35.84
Sparc:
BogoMips : 24.88
HELLO??? McFly???? Does this make ANY sense?
-Dan