Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758356AbYJWSjT (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:39:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753804AbYJWSjJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:39:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:44176 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750824AbYJWSjH (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:39:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4900C462.8010208@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:37:22 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Grant Grundler , Matthew Wilcox , Yinghai Lu , Jesse Barnes , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: show dma_mask bits in /sys References: <20081009211837.GC18444@colo.lackof.org> <48EE7745.2020603@kernel.org> <20081009213551.GC25780@parisc-linux.org> <86802c440810091451y4a3caceg1abaa75464c40a72@mail.gmail.com> <20081009225533.GB1914@colo.lackof.org> <48EE8E55.4000009@kernel.org> <20081012071157.GA20056@colo.lackof.org> <48FFD726.2010600@kernel.org> <20081023032833.GK26094@parisc-linux.org> <20081023064412.GD31186@colo.lackof.org> <20081023153923.GB4011@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20081023153923.GB4011@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 778 Lines: 21 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 -- 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/