Re: [PATCH] proc: add byteorder file

On 2022-11-01 05:34+0100, Greg KH wrote:

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 01:50:43AM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

quoted

Certain files in procfs are formatted in byteorder dependent ways. For
example the IP addresses in /proc/net/udp.

Assuming the byteorder of the userspace program is not guaranteed to be
correct in the face of emulation as for example with qemu-user.

Also this makes it easier for non-compiled applications like
shellscripts to discover the byteorder.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

Why not put this in /sys/kernel/ instead?  What does this have to do
with /proc/ other than it's traditionally been the dumping ground for
stuff like this?  :)

The main reason to put it in /proc was because the data it helps to interpret
is also in /proc.

But /sys/kernel looks good, too. I'll change it to that.