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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: driverfs problems
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 23:24:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020521212449.GA3050@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205171408.g4HE8tK65272@d12relay02.de.ibm.com>

Hi!

> I have a.t.m. three different ideas for how to structure the driverfs, in 
> this case:
> a) flat listing:
> /root/channel/{0000,0100,0103,0102,1000-13ff}
> advantage: reflects the real physical layout, no policy
> disadvantage: difficult to parse as a human (similar to pre-devfs /dev/*),
> possible scalability problems when scanning through long lists in
> kernel

I'd prefer this. 65000 is not that much, and anything else is ugly...
									Pavel
-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa

      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-21 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-17 16:08 Arnd Bergmann
2002-05-20 16:39 ` driverfs problem Patrick Mochel
2002-05-21 15:52   ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-05-21 21:26   ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-21 21:24 ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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