From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Simon Turvey <turveysp@ntlworld.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Devfs and driverfs
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:31:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020605223131.L16262@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000901c20ccf$00baa230$030ba8c0@mistral>
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:24:32PM +0100, Simon Turvey wrote:
> I apologise if this is a trivial question but I was hoping someone could
> explain or point me in the direction of more info.
>
> I understand the purpose and reason for devfs but I cannot find any info on
> driverfs. What's it for?
driverfs is a 'view by connection' view of everything in the system.
It useful for a number of things, from Power management to hinv type
tools. Read more at Documentation/driver-model.txt
Dave
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2002-06-05 20:24 Simon Turvey
2002-06-05 20:31 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-06-05 20:35 ` Patrick Mochel
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