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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Witukind <witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org>
Cc: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: udev - please help me to understand
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:56:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040103215646.GE11061@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040103135433.09eb97b7.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org>

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Witukind wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 02:00:10 +0100
> "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-03 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-02 11:48 udev - please help me to understand Steve Youngs
2004-01-02 13:00 ` Michael Buesch
2004-01-03  3:52   ` Steve Youngs
     [not found] ` <20040102123636.GA29909@mark.mielke.cc>
2004-01-02 20:21   ` Greg KH
2004-01-02 20:39     ` T'aZ
2004-01-03  3:56     ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-02 20:23 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03  1:00   ` J.A. Magallon
2004-01-03 12:54     ` Witukind
2004-01-03 21:56       ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-04 16:02         ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-01-03  3:28   ` Steve Youngs

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