The ghost of sysfs past

The ghost of sysfs past

Posted Jul 23, 2010 15:21 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
Parent article: The ghost of sysfs past

In 2010, nobody has shipped a distribution which relies on the old layout for some time.

This is obvious hyperbole, since there are hundreds of Linux distributions. Especially if you count a custom build.

It's a shame that a kernel developer would want to legitimize only major distributions.

It's even a shame a kernel developer would want to say a distribution is the only legitimate user of sysfs. Just last week, I had a program which is not part of a Linux distribution break because of a more recent reorganization of sysfs. The program is supposed to match up a block device special name with a location in a SAS network for maintenance purposes.

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