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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 08:04:14 -0500
From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>,
       Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc1] driver core: subclasses
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On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:40:00PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 05:54:48PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > The below patch is a first pass at implementing subclasses, for review
> > and comment.
> 
> Oops, when you mentioned this on irc, I thought you were referring to
> class_devices not classes.  I don't want classes to be able to be
> nested, only class devices.
> 
> I don't see a need for nested classes, as I thought the input thread had
> resolved itself so that it didn't need it (but I stopped paying
> attention, sorry, so I might be wrong here...)

The tailing part of the thread is here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111873628324649&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-hotplug-devel&m=111877313202313&w=2
where Hannes and Dmitry seemed to indicate (to my reading) that they
were looking for subclasses.  Perhaps it's not necessary.

> Why can't you just use class_device's that can have children?  That way
> the /sys/block stuff could be converted to also use this.

I will investigate.

Thanks,
Matt

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