Re: udev /sys

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:03:53PM +0100, dd@daemond.com wrote:
> > So in short, just mount sysfs at /sys and everyone will be happy :)
> 
> everyone expect me :-)
> 
> I was talking about Filesystem Hierarchy standard, as described in
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

No, please read that document.  It doesn't even require /proc :)
So we are free to create /sys without invalidating the document.

> I thought that sysfs and procfs are both for the same thing (you can see
> inside the kernel by using programs or even shell scripts), so I just
> thought sysfs could be a part of procfs, or procfs could offer for example
> /proc/sysfs directory which is empty everytime and allows users like me (who
> don't like /sys) to mount sysfs there :-)

No, they are not the same.  That is why they are different, and mounted
in different places.

> Maybe you are asking _why?_, but I am asking _why not?_ :-)

Because they have nothing to do with each other.  Yeah, they both show
kernel information, but different information.  Eventually almost
everything that does not deal with proccess will move to sysfs, as
procfs is not the place for them.

thanks,

greg k-h


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