Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762149AbYBMIVZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:21:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755143AbYBMIVR (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:21:17 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:60337 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751712AbYBMIVR (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:21:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:25:37 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Peter Teoh Cc: Scott Lovenberg , Randy Dunlap , Mulyadi Santosa , LKML , kernelnewbies , Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Documentation about sysfs/procfs entries Message-ID: <20080213082537.GA14098@kroah.com> References: <804dabb00802112123t774623b2n3e1e0a4addde1512@mail.gmail.com> <804dabb00802112346q240745abm93b6257f2cd64e60@mail.gmail.com> <47B15DD2.3090706@gmail.com> <20080212204348.4a858650.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <47B2874F.5000805@gmail.com> <20080213073159.GA13414@kroah.com> <804dabb00802122340t555e3c26ma903ef97991dd13@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <804dabb00802122340t555e3c26ma903ef97991dd13@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1680 Lines: 44 On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:40:32PM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote: > some questions: > > a. the list of parameters can presumably be extracted from existing > file via "procname" search.....not sure if it is correct (as per > attached, complete?) I don't see anything attached :( > b. what is the diff between /proc and /sys? in > Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt....it is mentioned that /proc > information will be published into a book...where is it? I can never > understand this. /proc is for process information originally, it grew to take lots of other different things over the years. /sys is a tree representation of the devices in the system, as well as a location for a lot of other kernel specific information. The rules for /sys are much more strict (one value per file, if the file isn't there, the userspace program must be able to handle it, etc.) > c. in Doc/sysctl are all the explanation for /proc/sys/* .... as a > start i think we shall contribute fixing here....but according to your > email, we should fix Doc/ABI...so I supposed some migration is needed? Yes, migration of this information to the ABI/ directory would be very good to have. > d. In networking/ip-sysctl.txt a lot of the explanation for the > attached procname's parameters are explained, may be we can relocate > it to ABI? Sounds good to me, but be sure to verify this with the networking developers as well. 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/