Greg KH <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Also, some companies already provide userspace tools to get all of this
> information about the different slots in a system and what is where,
> from userspace, no kernel changes are needed. So, why add all this
> extra complexity to the kernel if it is not needed?
It's not only complexity. Each new sysfs entry costs memory.
Memory is not free. There should be always a good reason for those.
-Andi
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