From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
dtor_core@ameritech.net, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>,
airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/8] Nesting class_device patches that actually work
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:34:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051018083434.GC13969@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051018071822.GC32655@neo.rr.com>
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:18:22AM -0400, Adam Belay wrote:
> As stated above, the keyboard actually does have a real location to hang off of.
> Nonetheless, a keyboard controller is a physical device. It's very different
> from a "virtual device" like a tty. Therefore, it seems unreasonable to make
> virtual devices belong to the "platform" bus.
>
> If a device doesn't have a parent device, it belongs at the root of the tree.
> That's the only obvious way to represent such a lack of dependency. This
> applies to both class and physical devices.
Well, a VT is obviously a child of the graphics card and of the
keyboard. Similarly for the 'mice' device, which is a child of all input
devices that offer mouseying capabilities.
It's just impossible to express in a tree.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-18 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20051013014147.235668000@echidna.kroah.org>
2005-10-13 2:08 ` [patch 0/8] Nesting class_device patches that actually work Greg KH
2005-10-13 2:10 ` Greg KH
2005-10-13 23:38 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-13 2:10 ` [patch 1/8] Driver Core: add the ability for class_device structures to be nested Greg KH
2005-10-13 2:10 ` [patch 2/8] Driver Core: fix up all callers of class_device_create() Greg KH
2005-10-13 2:10 ` [patch 3/8] Driver Core: document struct class_device properly Greg KH
2005-10-13 2:10 ` [patch 4/8] input: register the input class device sooner Greg KH
2005-10-13 2:10 ` [patch 5/8] input: export input_dev_class so that input drivers can use it Greg KH
2005-10-13 2:10 ` [patch 6/8] input: move the input class devices under their new input_dev devices Greg KH
2005-10-13 2:11 ` [patch 7/8] input: remove the input_class structure, as it is unused Greg KH
2005-10-13 2:11 ` [patch 8/8] input: rename input_dev_class to input_class to be correct Greg KH
2005-10-13 6:38 ` [patch 0/8] Nesting class_device patches that actually work Vojtech Pavlik
2005-10-13 21:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-13 10:58 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-13 21:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-13 23:37 ` Hannes Reinecke
2005-10-14 8:45 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-14 12:14 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-14 12:49 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-14 13:49 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-17 10:02 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-10-18 5:13 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-14 17:02 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-15 15:08 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-17 5:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-17 21:44 ` Greg KH
2005-10-17 21:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-17 23:26 ` Adam Belay
2005-10-18 0:03 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-17 23:24 ` Adam Belay
2005-10-17 23:44 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-18 5:26 ` Greg KH
2005-10-18 7:18 ` Adam Belay
2005-10-18 7:54 ` Greg KH
2005-10-18 8:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2005-10-18 15:08 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-18 15:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-18 6:04 ` Greg KH
2005-10-18 7:05 ` Greg KH
2005-10-18 7:35 ` Greg KH
2005-10-17 9:26 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-12-01 18:59 ` Patrick Mochel
2005-10-14 9:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-14 16:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20051018083434.GC13969@ucw.cz \
--to=vojtech@suse.cz \
--cc=airlied@linux.ie \
--cc=ambx1@neo.rr.com \
--cc=dtor_core@ameritech.net \
--cc=gregkh@suse.de \
--cc=hare@suse.de \
--cc=kay.sievers@vrfy.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mochel@digitalimplant.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.