linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_IDE_PROC_FS: /sys is not full replacement of /proc

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <200707262140.22276.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:40:22 +0200
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_IDE_PROC_FS: /sys is not full replacement of /proc


Hi,

On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> May be I miss something obvious but most information that was available 
> in /proc/ide is missing under /sys. At the very least, Mandriva hardware 
> detection expects /proc/ide/hdX/model; nothing close is under /sys.

It is really better to obtain some information using IOCTLs (i.e. SMART
data) but for other like "model" it makes perfect sense to add them to /sys.

> Are there any plans to extend IDE /sys interface to provide full range of 
> information from /proc? Alternatively I appreciate description (or pointer to 
> thereof) how to get information that was available under /proc/ide 
> without /proc/ide :)

Could you please add the information that you find missing to the existing
infrastructure in ide.c (ide_dev_attrs[] table)?

Thanks,
Bart
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/