| Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] counter: cleanups and device lifetime fixes | From | Lars-Peter Clausen <> | Date | Mon, 27 Dec 2021 13:25:25 +0100 |
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On 12/27/21 10:45 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > [...] > > - I wonder why counter is a bus and not a class device type. There is > no driver that would ever bind a counter device, is there? So > /sys/bus/counter/driver is always empty. > There used to be a time when GKH said that we do not want new driver classes. And all new subsystems should use bus since bus is a superset of class. This restriction has been eased since then.
But it was around when the IIO subsystem was merged and since the counter subsystem originated from the IIO subsystem I assume it just copied this.
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