Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264257AbUACV4u (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:56:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264267AbUACV4u (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:56:50 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:36233 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264257AbUACV4t (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:56:49 -0500 Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:56:46 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Witukind Cc: "J.A. Magallon" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: udev - please help me to understand Message-ID: <20040103215646.GE11061@kroah.com> References: <20040102202316.GD4992@kroah.com> <20040103010010.GA14823@werewolf.able.es> <20040103135433.09eb97b7.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040103135433.09eb97b7.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 20 On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Witukind wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 02:00:10 +0100 > "J.A. Magallon" 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/