[CentOS] CentOS 6.x - /proc/ide ?

Fri Jul 27 15:18:39 UTC 2012
TFML <mailinglist at theflux.net>

Laurence, Thank you for the information!

On Jul 27, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Laurence Hurst <L.A.Hurst at lboro.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 27/07/2012 15:58, TFML wrote:
>> I was curious, why was /proc/ide removed and was it moved to another directory to obtain ide drivers information?
> 
> From the upstream vendor's deployment guide[0]: "Later versions of the 
> 2.6 kernel have made the /proc/ide/ and /proc/pci/ directories obsolete. 
> The /proc/ide/ file system is now superseded by files in sysfs; to 
> retrieve information on PCI devices, use lspci instead. For more 
> information on sysfs or lspci, refer to their respective man pages." 
> Therefore you should be able to find the same information from /sys 
> somewhere - where exactly is left as an exercise to the reader.
> 
>  [0] 
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-proc.html
> 
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