Re: Input sysbsystema and hotplug

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 June 2005 02:43, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>>	 
>>Hmm. I don't like it very much as it mixes two different types of
>>devices (class devices and subclasses) into one directory.
>>
> 
> If one could come up with a good name to group inputX under I think
> it will be OK. We'd have XXX, mouse, joystick, event, ... as subclasses
> and all class_devices will be on level below. OTOH input_devs are parents
> for mice, joysticks etc so they might be on the higher level.
> 
>>I think it's cleaner to have two distinct class device types
>>(one for input_dev and one for input).
>>
> 
> I actually detest this practice:
> 
> [dtor@core ~]$ ls /sys/class/
> firmware     ieee1394       ieee1394_protocol  mem   pci_bus        sound  usb_host
> graphics     ieee1394_host  input              misc  pcmcia_socket  tty    vc
> i2c-adapter  ieee1394_node  input_dev          net   printer        usb
> [dtor@core ~]$
> 
> dtor@anvil ~]$ ls /sys/class/
> cpuid     i2c-adapter  ieee1394_host      input  msr      printer      sound  usb_host
> firmware  i2c-dev      ieee1394_node      mem    net      scsi_device  tty    vc
> graphics  ieee1394     ieee1394_protocol  misc   pci_bus  scsi_host    usb    video4linux
> [dtor@anvil ~]$
> 
> Firewire has 4 classes on the uppper level, I2C, USB, SCSI and Input got
> 2 each. It would be much nicer IMHO if we merge them into trees of classes
> with poarent class actually defining subsystem.  
> 
Correct.
And this in indeed a shortcoming of the driver model, as it basically
only knows about classes and devices.
Maybe it's about time to introduce a subsystem?

>>subclasses for the input class devices are a neat idea; but I fear the
>>hotplug event name will change for each subclass device ('input' will
>>become eg 'mouse'), so we again have to change all hotplug handlers.
>>And I don't see an easy solution for that ...
>>
> 
> We could have parent class define agent/subsystem name for all its children.
> 
Hmm.
We probably could.

Cheers,

Hannes
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