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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: driverfs problem
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 23:26:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020521212606.GB3050@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205171408.g4HE8tK65272@d12relay02.de.ibm.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205200750490.820-100000@geena.pdx.osdl.net>

Hi!

> > - I'm not sure about how to name the device directories. I don't have anything
> > like a hierarchical structure (except for something like scsi devices behind
> > a channel device) but rather a flat list of up to 65536 devices that are 
> > accessed by a device number that was defined by the system administrator. 
> > Each device also has a control unit type, comparable to a PCI ID, and in the 
> > general case each device driver knows about one control unit type. A 
> > hypothetical system might have
> > - one console, control unit type 0x3215, device number 0x0000
> > - three network devices, control unit type  0x1732, devno 0x0100 to 0x0102
> > - 1024 storage devices, control unit type 0x3390, devno 0x1000 to 0x13ff
> 
> The control unit types are irrelevant at this point, as they dictate the 
> type of device. You want to accurately represent the physical layout of 
> the system. 

s390 is linux on the top of vm. Linux runs under vmware-kind of
machine.... Its difficult to talk about "physical".
								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 driverfs problems 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 [this message]
2002-05-21 21:24 ` driverfs problems Pavel Machek

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