From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libudev and /sys/devices/system/cpu
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:45:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110113194553.GA8201@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A0B1A1FD-CDA5-4333-B2CD-B686A8FBF3E9@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:21:02PM +0100, Martin Grund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to access the info stored in /sys/devices/system/cpu to gather
> information about available CPUs and their architecture ( cache size,
> levels etc). However, when enumerating over devices and subsystems
> using udev_enumerate_scan_devices() and
> udev_enumerate_scan_subsystems() the result list does not contain any
> entry from /sys/devices/system.
That's because the entries there are not "real" devices as far as the
kernel is concerned.
It's a real problem, and Kay has some initial patches floating around
for the kernel to resolve this issue. I just need to get some spare
time to look them over and get them accepted into the kernel tree.
sorry,
greg k-h
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2011-01-13 19:21 libudev and /sys/devices/system/cpu Martin Grund
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