Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750794AbVJNQgl (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:36:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750795AbVJNQgk (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:36:40 -0400 Received: from qproxy.gmail.com ([72.14.204.199]:65256 "EHLO qproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750794AbVJNQgk convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:36:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=m3fqx/9wnmlRB5yWrNyEu5I351HfU/KeqsPapPLsPZH3PU3dXMkXBk6pUkCR0kLdwRUH9mglgleGnOVwb+lN/wpoAc9r6tsQIScfMnYz1WG9J17zvq/fw69EpG0t72ZzrQCv7JqVY/8w1OjMJc+eb8UssTc7wlWmzY+Unnz5amg= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:36:37 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov Reply-To: dtor_core@ameritech.net To: Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , Dmitry Torokhov , Kay Sievers , Vojtech Pavlik , Hannes Reinecke , Patrick Mochel , airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/8] Nesting class_device patches that actually work In-Reply-To: <20051014095248.GA22670@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051013020844.GA31732@kroah.com> <20051014095248.GA22670@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 19 On 10/14/05, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > NACK. The whole point of classes is to have common attributes and > behaviours over a set of devices. There's much more than the dev > attribute to them. Please just fix the input code to get their > semantics right instead. > What kind of changes would you like to see in the input system? Currently it maps perfectly well on to what we have in sysfs (using pair of input and input_dev classes), it is just that we do not really like the general sysfs structure and would like to improve it. -- Dmitry - 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/