[PATCH] 2.6 PPC64: Reduce rtas spamming

Dave Hansen haveblue at us.ibm.com
Thu Jul 22 05:57:45 EST 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 11:55, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> Would anyone have a problem with moving everything from /proc/ppc64/rtas
> to sysfs (/sys/firmware/rtas) ?  It seems that sysfs is where all these
> files should live anyway.

Some of them use pretty broken interfaces, and I don't think they should
be perpetuated.  The biggest offender in my mind is
ppc64/rtas/rmo_buffer.  It exports physical addresses so that they can
be mapped with /dev/mem.  I think a more refined interface is
appropriate here.

As for the other things in that directory, could you do an ls on your
system and describe which ones you think need to be kept?

-- Dave

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