Re: udev - please help me to understand

From: Kevin P. Fleming
Date: Sun Jan 04 2004 - 11:05:01 EST


Greg KH wrote:

procfs is for process information.
sysfs is for system information. Slowly, over time, things that are
currently in procfs will be moving to sysfs.

Slight clarification:

Slowly, over time, things that are currently in procfs _that never belonged there_ will be moving to sysfs. procfs isn't going away, it's just being converted back to its original purpose (that of providing process-specific information).

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