From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265236AbTLZUPx (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:15:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265237AbTLZUPx (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:15:53 -0500 Received: from wblv-224-192.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.224.192]:34947 "EHLO gateway.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265236AbTLZUPu (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:15:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@nosferatu.za.org To: Tomasz Torcz Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing Lists , Christoph Hellwig , Andreas Jellinghaus In-Reply-To: <20031226165456.GA26466@irc.pl> References: <20031223002126.GA4805@kroah.com> <20031223002439.GB4805@kroah.com> <20031223002609.GC4805@kroah.com> <20031223131523.B6864@infradead.org> <1072193516.3472.3.camel@fur> <20031223163904.A8589@infradead.org> <20031225184553.A25397@infradead.org> <1072381287.7638.52.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20031226161949.A31900@infradead.org> <20031226165456.GA26466@irc.pl> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-b2vZZjFQUVSWWGYYakxT" Message-Id: <1072469891.21020.3.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 22:18:12 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-b2vZZjFQUVSWWGYYakxT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 18:54, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 04:19:49PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:41:28PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > > So maybe suggest an solution rather than shooting one down all the > > > time (which do seem logical, and is only apposed by one person curren= tly > > > - namely you =3D). > >=20 > > My suggestion is to just use MAKEDEV asis for devices that are static > > like the memdevices. Dynamic solutions do not buy us anything for thos= e. >=20 > They do buy when using tmpfs for /dev. And it will anyhow require a full evaluation of MAKEDEV (debian's one anyhow), as it really put a lot of extra crap in. With Greg's patches I only need to worry about /dev/core, /dev/std{in,out,err} and alsa. The question is now also how do you 'qualify' an device to have sysfs support. Sure some is static like /dev/null, but over here /dev/hda is pretty static as well =3D) --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-b2vZZjFQUVSWWGYYakxT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/7JeDqburzKaJYLYRAvPYAJ91vuw7z20L/UXdsLOxzkelyfoLBQCfX4f9 0KChRXtt39jTOFtyZBXAGso= =J5II -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-b2vZZjFQUVSWWGYYakxT--