linux-kernel - Re: Where to put adapters

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Message-ID: <20080219192447.GB11948@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:24:47 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Karl Dahlke <eklhad@...cast.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where to put adapters

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:01:48AM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> Now that notifiers are in, (yay!), people are going to start writing adapters
> for visually and motor impaired individuals.
> I suggest we place them in drivers/adapters in the source tree,
> and I suggest they put their virtual files in the directory /proc/adapters,
> which would be created via fs/proc/root.c as part of the /proc file system.

/proc is for processes (and was in the past used for all sort of crap).
So without knowing what an adapter is in this context /proc
seems to be a bad choice.

	Sam
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