From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vojtech Pavlik Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:13:35 +0000 Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed. 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 Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:43:24PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Yet. The stack we're looking at today has two layers: bus (USB, PCI), > > and "next" (network). Printers and disks will be layered above busses; > > PCMCIA is another bus. > > I see. However as soon as you take PCI into the picture, that's all > devices. It begins to look like recreating devfs. Actually I think that we need more than just devfs. Devfs stopped too early and focuses only on the userland interface (/dev/*). If we manage to get us stable names, we'll need more than devfs and I think that we'll also make devfs obsolete. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel