From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Version 2 of the Linux IPMI driver
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:07:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020909170743.GF5719@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D790F2E.1050306@acm.org>
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:25:18PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> You access a device as a filesystem? That's bizarre.
Why? There's lots of precedent for this model (usbfs, pcihpfs, etc.)
> It's a device, and they call them "devices" in the kernel for a
> reason. Why would you want to do this? Especially with devfs, the
> whole device numbering problem goes away. You could easily make it a
> misc device.
devfs did not make the device numbering problem go away at all, you
still need to have a registered major/minor number with Lanana to use
devfs. Yes, you can ask for a dynamic misc number, but that is very
difficult to support.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-09 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-06 19:18 [patch] Version 2 of the Linux IPMI driver Matthew Wilcox
2002-09-06 20:25 ` Corey Minyard
2002-09-06 20:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-09-09 17:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2002-09-06 18:35 Corey Minyard
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