linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] use of /sys versus /proc

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Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 13:19:20 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	cpw@....com (Cliff Wickman)
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] use of /sys versus /proc

On Fri, 23 May 2008 08:12:55 CDT, Cliff Wickman said:
> 
> I have a need to display TLB shootdown statistics.  (I'm working
> on a patch to implement this on a new machine at SGI.)
> 
> I had planned to display these statistics through /proc
> as in arch/ia64/sn/kernel/sn2/sn2_smp.c (/proc/sgi_sn/ptc_statistics).
> 
> However, considering the general move to reserve /proc for
> process-related things, I thought the community might prefer the
> interface to be in /sys.

Is debugfs an option?

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