* sysfs vs. procfs, devfs vs. ufs ?
@ 2003-11-07 3:28 Nico Schottelius
2003-11-09 0:28 ` Robert Love
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From: Nico Schottelius @ 2003-11-07 3:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Hello!
what is the intention of sysfs?
is it a replacement/addition to procfs?
devfs is obsoleted, where can I switch ufs on?
what does it look like?
Nico
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* Re: sysfs vs. procfs, devfs vs. ufs ?
2003-11-07 3:28 sysfs vs. procfs, devfs vs. ufs ? Nico Schottelius
@ 2003-11-09 0:28 ` Robert Love
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From: Robert Love @ 2003-11-09 0:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nico Schottelius; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:28, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> what is the intention of sysfs?
> is it a replacement/addition to procfs?
sysfs is a filesystem used to export the device model (a tree of data
structures representing the devices in a system) to user-space in a
clean and efficient way.
procfs is a more generic (and less elegant) filesystem for exporting
anything to user-space.
sysfs only replaces procfs in so far as relevant interfaces, such as
those related to hardware. process information should remain in procfs.
/proc is not going anywhere.
Robert Love
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