From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265136AbTLWNP3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:15:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265140AbTLWNP3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:15:29 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:23567 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265136AbTLWNP0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:15:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:15:23 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Greg KH Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] Message-ID: <20031223131523.B6864@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net References: <20031223002126.GA4805@kroah.com> <20031223002439.GB4805@kroah.com> <20031223002609.GC4805@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20031223002609.GC4805@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:26:09PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:26:09PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > This adds /sys/class/mem which enables all mem char devices to show up > properly in udev. > > Has been posted to linux-kernel every so often since last July, and > acked by a number of other kernel developers. This is pointless. The original point of sysfs and co was to present the physical device tree, where these devices absolutely fit into. Why are you doing this at all? Creating thse through udev doesn't make sense as they need to be present anyway..