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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>,
	airlied@linux.ie
Subject: Re: [RFC] subclasses in sysfs to solve world peace
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:48:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050916214841.GA13920@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509160221.54587.dtor_core@ameritech.net>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:21:53AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > 
> > > No, like your first picture, except 'interfaces/mice' will be a directory,
> > > not a symlink, since it does not have class_device parent. I should have
> > > said "Otherwise it gets added into _its_ class directory". 
> > 
> 
> Ok, this is _very_ raw and I am creating double symlinks somehow, but still
> it shows it can be done:
> 
> [dtor@core ~]$ tree /sys/class/input/
> /sys/class/input/
> |-- devices
> |   |-- input0

Close, just drop the "devices" subdir, and you have my proposal, I'm
glad we agree :)

> `-- interfaces
>     |-- event0 -> ../../../class/input/devices/input0/event0

I don't see why we need the interfaces subdir at all.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-16 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-16  0:20 [RFC] subclasses in sysfs to solve world peace Greg KH
2005-09-16  0:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-16  1:46   ` Kay Sievers
2005-09-16  1:58     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-16 21:54   ` Greg KH
2005-09-16  1:04 ` Kay Sievers
2005-09-16  1:23   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-16  1:54     ` Kay Sievers
2005-09-16  2:03       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-16  2:14         ` Kay Sievers
2005-09-16  2:36           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-16  2:43             ` Kay Sievers
2005-09-16  3:10               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-16  7:21               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-16 21:48                 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-09-16 22:55                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-16  8:02     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-09-16 15:44       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-16 21:50         ` Greg KH
2005-09-16 22:56           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-17  0:48           ` Dave Airlie
2005-09-16 21:49     ` Greg KH
2005-09-16  7:59   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-09-16 21:55   ` Greg KH
2005-09-16 22:45     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-17  0:20 ` Antonino A. Daplas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-16  1:45 David Lang

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