Guest section DW wrote:
> From: Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> There's actually one more TODO point. And pretty serious one, at it.
> We got a severely cluttered namespace under /proc (little gems a-la
> /proc/h8 and friends). It's a Bad Thing (tm) for a lot of obvious reasons.
> We can move to something saner if
> a) we'll agree on a naming policy
> b) add a PROC_COMPAT option that would just create a bunch of
> static symlinks from old to new locations.
> I think starting a PROC_COMPAT option would be a rather bad idea.
> In a development series it is permissible to change things,
> and in a new stable release one may require people to upgrade
> utilities. Having PROC_COMPAT only complicates things - it will
> cause problems instead of solving them.
Yes, I am beginning to agree with this viewpoint much more
Moving things around in /proc is really an issue that needs to be solved
on a driver-to-driver basis.
Also, some drivers can simply be converted to the new proc_driver_xxx
helper, which automatically puts things inside "/proc/drivers"
sub-directory.
