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Can we admit that sysfs was a really bad idea?

Can we admit that sysfs was a really bad idea?

Posted Mar 22, 2010 21:54 UTC (Mon) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: Can we admit that sysfs was a really bad idea? by quotemstr
Parent article: A critical look at sysfs attribute values

I think that it is a very big step to go from "it has some problems" to "it is a bad idea". To my mind sysfs has a lot of strengths.

And sysctl really isn't measurably better. check out dev/cdrom/info (in /proc/sys). If sysctl has fewer problems it is only because it has substantially less content.


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