Re: Fwd: Procfs or sysfs

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Tue Oct 07 2008 - 10:08:56 EST


On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:07:02 +0530
"\"G\"" <balajig81@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> From: G <balajig81@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Oct 6, 2008 2:13 PM
> Subject: Procfs or sysfs
> To: linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Hi
>
> I am developing a Linux kernel module which contains some tables
> (data structures). For debugging purposes, i would like to write the
> contents of the data structure to one of the pseudo file systems which
> linux maintains. Which one should i go for procfs or sysfs and why ?.
> I feel procfs could be a good choice .
>

Use debugfs, because then you are saying: "this is for my debugging,
please don't build your application around this crappy output format"
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