Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:10:50 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCHv2 1/4] drivers/otp: add initial support for OTP memory |
| |
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:25:03PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2011 00:28:47 Greg KH wrote: > > > Yes, that is how it used to be, but then it turns out that both of them > > are really just "subsystems" as far as it all goes. They are just ways > > that devices are bound to drivers in a logical manner. We have patches > > floating around that get rid of both busses and classes to merge them > > together, which is the end goal here. I know Kay has posted detailed > > reasons for why this all is on lkml in the past, and had working code > > about 5 years ago, it's just been slow going... > > How will that work? I suppose we can't really change the directory > structure anyway, so to users it will still look like it does today, > even if the kernel just uses the same code for bus and class internally.
Yes. But we can have symlinks instead of "real" /sys/class and /sys/bus directories like we do for /sys/block today. All of the major tools that use sysfs work properly with a /sys/subsystem/ setup today thanks to Kay's efforts.
thanks,
greg k-h
| |