From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:02:41 +0000 Subject: Re: udev - please help me to understand Message-Id: <3FF83921.1030907@backtobasicsmgmt.com> List-Id: References: <20040102202316.GD4992@kroah.com> <20040103010010.GA14823@werewolf.able.es> <20040103135433.09eb97b7.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> <20040103215646.GE11061@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20040103215646.GE11061@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg KH Cc: Witukind , "J.A. Magallon" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Greg KH wrote: > procfs is for process information. > sysfs is for system information. Slowly, over time, things that are > currently in procfs will be moving to sysfs. Slight clarification: Slowly, over time, things that are currently in procfs _that never belonged there_ will be moving to sysfs. procfs isn't going away, it's just being converted back to its original purpose (that of providing process-specific information). ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265736AbUADQDJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:03:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265726AbUADQDJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:03:09 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-14-236-254.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.236.254]:22421 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265736AbUADQCy (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:02:54 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF83921.1030907@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 09:02:41 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back to Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Witukind , "J.A. Magallon" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: udev - please help me to understand References: <20040102202316.GD4992@kroah.com> <20040103010010.GA14823@werewolf.able.es> <20040103135433.09eb97b7.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> <20040103215646.GE11061@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20040103215646.GE11061@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > procfs is for process information. > sysfs is for system information. Slowly, over time, things that are > currently in procfs will be moving to sysfs. Slight clarification: Slowly, over time, things that are currently in procfs _that never belonged there_ will be moving to sysfs. procfs isn't going away, it's just being converted back to its original purpose (that of providing process-specific information).