From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] iSeries virtual i/o sysfs files
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:31:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040622113103.GA1288@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040622212319.2a0c121b.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:23:19PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> What it means is that, as the patch stands, a node is created in
> /sys/devices/vio (and /sys/bus/vio/devices) for all possible virtual
> devices not just those actually present. The exception is for virtual
> ethernets which are relatively easy to enumerate. To enumerate the other
> devices precisely, I will need to extract the device probing code from
> each of the other device drivers (viodasd, viocd and viotape) and include
> some (hopefully simplified) form of the code directly into the bus probing
> code for iSeries in vio.c.
Maybe you should just kick your collegues on the OS/400 side to provide
a better interface? After IBM is oh so Linux friendly they could maybe
fi up their legacy codebases to make the slightest bit of sense?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-22 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-22 4:04 [RFC] iSeries virtual i/o sysfs files Stephen Rothwell
2004-06-22 6:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-22 11:23 ` Stephen Rothwell
2004-06-22 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-06-22 12:34 ` Stephen Rothwell
2004-06-22 12:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-22 13:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
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