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On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 19:53 -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote: > On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 09:14 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:34:43AM -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 17:59 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 05:49:29PM -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote: > > > > > A couple of months ago greg kh started work toward allowing everything > > > > > to be a struct device in the sysfs device tree. How is this progressing? > > > > > > > > Quite well. But next time you might want to CC: me as I almost missed > > > > this message. > > > > > > > > > Any time frame when we will have a simplified driver core api? > > > > > > > > It's getting there. If you look in -mm there are a lot of subsystems > > > > already converted over, along with a lot of patches from andrew that > > > > revert these changes due to udev issues. > > > > > > > > I'm working on fixing up the udev issues so that the kernel work is not > > > > held up. That's a bit slower going as it requires me to install a lot > > > > of different distros... > > > How about block devices? Will it be moved to /sys/class or is that abi > > > set in stone? > > > > Yes, those will also move, but that's a bit lower on my list of things > > to do. Patches to help this out are always welcome. > With the new code will their be much difference between /sys/class/ > and /sys/devices/? Can one of these go away, preferably /sys/class/? No, that doesn't make sense. They are two different things and both will stay. /sys/device is the kernel device tree, modeled by the stacking of drivers and subsystems inside the kernel. It expresses the hierarchy and dependency of devices, but no classification. /sys/class is the classification/grouping of devices, it will not express any hierarchy. In the end, after the transition of directories in /sys/class to symlinks, /sys/class will only be flat lists of symlinks grouped by subsytems. The symlinks will point to the actual device locations in the /sys/devices tree. Kay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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