Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:38:53 -0700 (PDT) | From | Patrick Mochel <> | Subject | Re: driverfs is not for everything! (was: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map ) |
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> I think the qualification for appearing in driverfs is actually possessing a > driver. Therefore, we accept FC and iSCSI. Things which appear as > FileSystems are debatable, but not anything which has a real device driver.
The qualification for appearing in the device tree is the physical presence of the device, regardless of the presence of a driver to control it. (This typically depends on the presence of the bus driver so it can discover the device.) Presence in the device tree implies presence in driverfs.
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