* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-09-27 13:02:56]: > > Good point. It is not really necessary. I started development using the > > netlink code. Therefore I first added the new command in the netlink > > code. I also thought, it would be a good idea to provide all netlink > > commands over the procfs interface to be consistent. > > Maybe we should have delivered taskstats over procfs from day one. > The intention was to provide taskstats over a scalable backend to deal with a large amount of data, including exit notifications. We provided some information like blkioi delay data on proc, but not the whole structure. -- Three Cheers, Balbir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
