From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 21:56:46 +0000 Subject: Re: udev - please help me to understand Message-Id: <20040103215646.GE11061@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040102202316.GD4992@kroah.com> <20040103010010.GA14823@werewolf.able.es> <20040103135433.09eb97b7.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> In-Reply-To: <20040103135433.09eb97b7.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Witukind Cc: "J.A. Magallon" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Witukind wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 02:00:10 +0100 > "J.A. Magallon" wrote: > > IE, I want a working and race free devfs, and this is udev. > > Well udev != devfs. I think it's two different ways to solve a same problem. > What I wonder now is why do we need both /proc and sysfs? procfs is for process information. sysfs is for system information. Slowly, over time, things that are currently in procfs will be moving to sysfs. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- 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