> But.. these do look rather suspiciously like sysfs attrs to me. I'd rather any future sysfs interface actually exposed something more meaningful. This is a legacy fixup 8) > > We didn't have a sysfs in the IDE days (so Gadi added the klunky > procfs "settings" thing for there), but we do now. > > I'm happy to update hdparm to check sysfs if that's where this > ends up, or to do almost nothing for it if we stick with the ioctls. I'm not sure sysfs helps much anyway - you have to open the device file and keep it open while accessing the sysfs nodes anyway (something huge numbers of apps hopelessly fail to do so) If you don't you have no guarantee the pci device won't be removed/replaced and you code will go off and adjust some other unfortunate bit of hardware. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
