linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

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Date:	Mon, 1 Jan 2007 20:21:36 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Mitch Bradley <wmb@...mworks.com>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, segher@...nel.crashing.org,
	hch@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...top.org,
	dmk@...x.com, jg@...top.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem


On Jan 1 2007 08:10, Mitch Bradley wrote:
>> 
>> We don't generally export binary representation
>> files out of /proc or /sys, in fact this rule I believe is layed
>> our precisely somewhere at least in the sysfs case.
>> 
> pci-sysfs exports PCI config space in binary.

cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.0/subsystem_device 
0x0c60

Can't find the binary thing. But I've seen it before -- esp.
/proc/usb when it existed. It's really sad, because you can learn a
lot from the text representations. Having to figure out what the
proper utility and all its options is often takes some time.


	-`J'
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