Re: Documentation for sysfs, hotplug, and firmware loading.

Greg KH
2007-07-18T23:45:37Z

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:39:53PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> PICK ONE! JUST #*%(&#%& PICK ONE! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
>
> I don't care where it is. Just put it somewhere I can find it, and keep it
> there. All this gratuitous moving stuff around serves NO PURPOSE other than
> to break userspace. I'm trying to document this so that the next time you
> go "oh wait, it should be at "/sys/tarantula/fruitbat" I can show that you're
> breaking an existing documented userspace API.
>
> There's a kernel config option to make symlinks from the old
> location. /sys/block makes as much sense as any other location, and it's
> what's there now.

Read the sysfs documentation file we just added, it describes how this
is all documented and should be used. So well that I do not think you
need to try to document it again.

thanks,

greg k-h