Re: [PATCH] pci: show dma_mask bits in /sys

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Oct 23 2008 - 14:39:20 EST


Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:44:12AM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
Lastly, /sys seems to have over run even /proc. On an rx2600 (ia64):
grundler@gsyprf3:/usr/src/linux-2.6$ find /sys ! -type d | wc
6288 6296 264893

Is this causing some kind of problem for your systems?

/sys shows far more information than /proc does, so of course it would
be larger in quantity.


Furthermore, it is actually structured as individual data items; a lot of /proc files are aggregate freeform data.

-hpa
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