Re: [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing

Steven Rostedt
2006-05-23T15:09:41Z

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 16:51 +0200, Simon Oosthoek wrote:

> > Use of /proc for an API is no longer desirable. Please rewrite.
> > -
>
> hmm, ok, I'm not sure this will happen anytime soon (being a rather low
> priority thing, which is also the reason it's not submitted as patch to
> the kernel and not signed off), but what is currently the desirable method?
>

sysfs is the new interface into the kernel. /proc is for processes
only (besides the old stuff).

Read up on:
Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt and Documentation/kobject.txt

-- Steve