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From: Roland Dreier
Subject: Re: [patch 09/11] GRU Driver - /proc interfaces
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 7:20 am

> AFAICT, this is not a format that is compatible with the /sys guidelines of 1 value
 > per file.
 > 
 > A system can have 1000's of GRU chiplets. Having separate collection of files for
 > each set of metrics is clumsy. What other drivers have similar issues. I'll
 > gladly copy whatever makes sense.

I guess the closest parallel would be networking, where you might have
1000s of routes etc.  So maybe netlink is your best bet.

 - R.
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[patch 09/11] GRU Driver - /proc interfaces, steiner, (Mon Jun 9, 2:10 pm)
Re: [patch 09/11] GRU Driver - /proc interfaces, Roland Dreier, (Mon Jun 9, 2:32 pm)
Re: [patch 09/11] GRU Driver - /proc interfaces, Jack Steiner, (Mon Jun 9, 3:11 pm)
Re: [patch 09/11] GRU Driver - /proc interfaces, Roland Dreier, (Tue Jun 10, 7:20 am)