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dTal
on July 24, 2019
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Extending the Linux Kernel with Built-In Kernel He...
Why /sys and not /proc ? After all, the kernel binary itself is under /proc .
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There is a very long thread on LKML discussing this. But I'm pretty sure the primary reason is that procfs has been slowly accumulating more and more random knobs, while sysfs actually has a structure that can be used reasonably by userspace.
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The file started out in proc. There was a very long lkml discussion on the subject.
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