Re: where to export system tuneables, /proc/sys/kernel or /sys/?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <4207A395.1060901@xxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I'm doing some kernel work that will export tuneables to userspace.  In 
> 2.4 I would have used /proc/sys/kernel, but now there is /sys, which was 
> supposed to be for system information.
> 
> However, a bit of poking around in /sys didn't reveal any obvious place 
> to put it.  Is current practice to still put this sort of thing in /proc?
> 

/proc/sys/kernel, using the sysctl internals, yes.

Note that the use of the sysctl(2) system call is highly deprecated,
but the /proc/sys filesystem tree is not; the reason is that the
numeric API used by the former is unstable.

	-hpa
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