From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261906AbTJGJID (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 05:08:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261946AbTJGJID (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 05:08:03 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:42401 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261906AbTJGJIA (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 05:08:00 -0400 From: Andreas Jellinghaus Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] Backing Store for sysfs Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 11:08:17 +0200 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity. (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-Id: References: <20031006085915.GE4220@in.ibm.com> <20031006160846.GA4125@us.ibm.com> <20031006173111.GA1788@in.ibm.com> <20031006173858.GA4403@kroah.com> <20031006180119.GC1788@in.ibm.com> <20031006180907.GA4611@kroah.com> <20031006183132.GD1788@in.ibm.com> <20031006183403.GA6274@kroah.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > No, not a 'find', we look up the kobject that was added, and its > attributes. Doing a 'find' will emulate this for your tests, that's > all. But coldplugging will more or less do a "find /sys" to get a list of all existing devices and add those to /dev. So expect a "find /sys" to be run at least once in the early boot process. Coldplugging is not yet implemented, but it's possible to simulate it with a bit of shell scripting. Andreas