From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: /sys/block vs. /sys/class/block
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:29:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103534958.14050.13.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C68A6D.6060801@yahoo.com.au>
> Seems like that's where it belongs.
>
> The reason why it is in /sys/block is because it is apparently a "subsystem",
> and using decl_subsys - drivers/block/genhd.c
I'm not convinced ... If you look at how /sys is organized, it really
doesn't make any sense ... block devives are really devices of "class
block", wether we have a block "subsystem" in there is irrelevant imho.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-20 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-20 7:08 /sys/block vs. /sys/class/block Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-12-20 8:16 ` Nick Piggin
2004-12-20 9:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-12-20 9:44 ` Nick Piggin
2004-12-20 9:45 ` Jens Axboe
2004-12-20 11:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-20 14:08 ` Jens Axboe
2004-12-20 22:49 ` Greg KH
2004-12-21 7:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-12-22 2:34 ` Daniel Stekloff
2004-12-22 4:34 ` Stephen Rothwell
2004-12-22 6:20 ` Greg KH
2004-12-23 6:39 ` David Weinehall
2004-12-23 6:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-06 23:14 ` Greg KH
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