Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161121AbVIPICn (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:02:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161122AbVIPICm (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:02:42 -0400 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:14312 "EHLO mail.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161121AbVIPICl (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:02:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:02:37 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Kay Sievers , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke , Patrick Mochel , airlied@linux.ie Subject: Re: [RFC] subclasses in sysfs to solve world peace Message-ID: <20050916080237.GD10007@midnight.suse.cz> References: <20050916002036.GA6149@suse.de> <20050916010438.GA12759@vrfy.org> <200509152023.44003.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200509152023.44003.dtor_core@ameritech.net> X-Bounce-Cookie: It's a lemmon tree, dear Watson! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1275 Lines: 32 On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:23:43PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > 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. That'd seem like a quite a good idea to me. ;) > Class represent a set of objects with similar characteristics. In > this regard event0 is no "lesser" than input0. Well, input0 itself can't be accessed from userspace, so it's different. > Although they are > linked they are objects of the same importance. I do want to see > all input interfaces without scanning bunch of directories. A directory with symlinks to all the interfaces of the class might make sense. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/