From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] subclasses in sysfs to solve world peace
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:23:43 -0500
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On Thursday 15 September 2005 20:04, Kay Sievers wrote:
> I like that the child devices are actually below the parent device
> and represent the logical structure. I prefer that compared to the
> symlink-representation between the classes at the same directory
> level which the input patches propose.

Why don't we take it a step further and abandon classes altogether?
This way everything will grow from their respective hardware devices.

Class represent a set of objects with similar characteristics. In
this regard event0 is no "lesser" than input0. Although they are
linked they are objects of the same importance. I do want to see
all input interfaces without scanning bunch of directories.

-- 
Dmitry
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