Re: udev - please help me to understand

[Greg KH]

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@xxxxxxx> 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
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