From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:16:58 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs misc device support [3/4] Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:28:00PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > This adds /sys/class/mem which enables all misc char devices to show up > properly in udev. > > Note, the misc_init() call has been moved to a subsys_initcall as it > seems there are a lot of platform specific misc devices that are calling > misc_register before misc_init() is called. > > Has been posted to lkml a few times in the past and tested by a wide > range of people. So how are misc devices a device class now? This is just a random coolection of drivers that traditionally didn't have their own major. Killing misc devices sounds like abetter plan than codifying this in sysfs.. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel