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 an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
