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From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 30/47] Driver core: create devices/virtual/ tree
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On 9/26/06, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> This change creates a devices/virtual/CLASS_NAME tree for struct devices
> that belong to a class, yet do not have a "real" struct device for a
> parent.  It automatically creates the directories on the fly as needed.
>

Why do you need multiple virtual devices? All parentless class devices
could grow from a single virtual device.

-- 
Dmitry