From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:05:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:05:51 -0400 Received: from 12-231-243-94.client.attbi.com ([12.231.243.94]:36618 "HELO kroah.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:05:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:07:43 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Corey Minyard Cc: Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] Version 2 of the Linux IPMI driver Message-ID: <20020909170743.GF5719@kroah.com> References: <20020906201856.F26580@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <3D790F2E.1050306@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D790F2E.1050306@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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