Re: [RFC] subclasses in sysfs to solve world peace

Vojtech Pavlik
2005-09-16T08:02:43Z

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:23:43PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thursday 15 September 2005 20:04, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > I like that the child devices are actually below the parent device
> > and represent the logical structure. I prefer that compared to the
> > symlink-representation between the classes at the same directory
> > level which the input patches propose.
>
> Why don't we take it a step further and abandon classes altogether?
> This way everything will grow from their respective hardware devices.

That'd seem like a quite a good idea to me. ;)

> Class represent a set of objects with similar characteristics. In
> this regard event0 is no "lesser" than input0.

Well, input0 itself can't be accessed from userspace, so it's different.

> Although they are
> linked they are objects of the same importance. I do want to see
> all input interfaces without scanning bunch of directories.

A directory with symlinks to all the interfaces of the class might make
sense.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR