Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:25:48 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] EDAC and /sys/devices/system |
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:37:44PM -0800, Doug Thompson wrote: > Well, I have been playing now with the sysdev class of > APIs for installing objects into /sys/devices/system. > Unforturnately, the capabilities of that do not > provide me with what I was wanting for EDAC. > > What I was wanting was an extra directory called > 'edac'. In that directory was to be various types of > edac devices (memory controller and PCI Parity to > start) > > In the directory /sys/devices/system: > > edac/mc/mc0/<attr and controls> > edac/mc/mc1/<attr and controls> > edac/mc/<attr and controls> > > and > > edac/pci/<attr and controls> > > This would allow for future edac components. > > What I found out was that /sys/devices/system doesn't > allow for nested subsystems. At least not from what I > have read.
Why? It should work just fine, you might need to export a variable that isn't global, right? It shouldn't be more complex than that.
thanks,
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