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> And again the grouping into subdirectories should have been fixed in  
> userspace by reading the driver name. The kernel should not do this at  
> all.

The kernel should carry on doing what it does at the moment. The amount
of gain from semi-pointless screwing about with the namespace and
compatibility is vastly less than the gain from leaving things in their
current perfectly happy and adequate form.

Alan