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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:25:10 -0500
From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Some thoughts on device drivers and sysfs
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:24:59 -0500, Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> wrote:
> This would allow us to represent per-device driver attributes in sysfs.
> As an added benefit, driver devices would allow the tracking and control
> of driver state, which may be needed for dynamic power management.  I
> look forward to any comments.

Isn't there already a way to do this? I recall some discussion lkml
about six months ago  about doing it. I tried googling for it but
couldn't find it. It may not have been implemented.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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