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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:31:31 +0200
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Simon Turvey <turveysp@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Devfs and driverfs
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:24:32PM +0100, Simon Turvey wrote:
 > I apologise if this is a trivial question but I was hoping someone could
 > explain or point me in the direction of more info.
 > 
 > I understand the purpose and reason for devfs but I cannot find any info on
 > driverfs.  What's it for?

driverfs is a 'view by connection' view of everything in the system.
It useful for a number of things, from Power management to hinv type
tools.  Read more at Documentation/driver-model.txt

        Dave

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