Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Linux Kernel Broke A Feature NOBODY Uses!" video.

  1. 3:07 procfs was turning into a dumping ground for every little bit of functionality that driver developers wanted to expose to userland. Torvalds gave them a telling off, and sysfs was created as a result.
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  2. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is all very well until it breaks and you discover you don’t have the ability to fix it ...
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  3. 2:05 sysfs is basically the API for accessing (and managing) the kernel’s view of your system hardware, and of its control of that hardware.
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  4. When you buy something that expensive, how much more would it add to the cost to think ahead, consider how long that hardware is likely to be in service, and extract some commitment from the vendor regarding reasonable levels of support over that duration of time?
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