From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: mochel@osdl.org, greg@kroah.com, hannal@us.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFT/C 2.5.70] Input class hook up to driver model/sysfs
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 15:56:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030605155642.68179245.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030605224535.GH608@elf.ucw.cz>
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > > Okay, that means that another patch is needed to create hierarchy for
> > > power managment... This sysfs stuff is getting hairy.
> >
> > No it's not. The hierarchy is the device tree, which is the original
> > purpose of it, remember?
>
> device tree is okay with me, but... it took quite a long patch to add
> it to classes. I thought that classes are only going to be symlinks
> into device tree, but this patch added classes without adding to the
> device tree...
Al Viro has asked that sysfs conversions such as this be placed on hold
until we sort through the newly-added bugs arising from the sysfsification
of netdevs and request queues.
So yeah, do the work, but please make sure that you understand what went
wrong with netdevs and queues, and make sure that the input sysfsification
addresses those problems. Preferably in the same way...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-05 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-28 1:04 Hanna Linder
2003-05-28 23:11 ` Hanna Linder
2003-05-29 7:30 ` Greg KH
2003-05-29 9:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-05 21:12 ` Pavel Machek
2003-06-05 21:17 ` Greg KH
2003-06-05 22:07 ` Pavel Machek
2003-06-05 22:12 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-06-05 22:45 ` Pavel Machek
2003-06-05 22:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-06-05 23:41 ` viro
2003-06-06 0:03 ` Hanna Linder
2003-06-05 22:16 ` Greg KH
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