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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 07:48:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110506144801.GA10639@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1105061021340.11124@localhost6.localdomain6>

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:25:08AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   and i want to more emphasize kobjects and sysfs.  to that end, i'm
> aware of the "sysfsutils" package, although i haven't used it yet.

It's obsolete, and doesn't work on modern kernels, please never use it.

Use libudev instead if you want access to sysfs data for devices.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-06 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-06 14:25 anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way? Robert P. J. Day
2011-05-06 14:34 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-05-06 14:47   ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-05-06 14:48 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-05-06 14:59   ` Robert P. J. Day

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