Re: driverfs question

[Adam <ambx1@netscape.net>]

root@chaos.analogic.com wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Adam wrote:
> 
>>All devices will be arranged according to type.  There will be a folder 
>>
>                                                                    ^^^^^
> 
>>Method 2:
>>Folders are created for each bus then devices are placed within them.
>>
>   ^^^^^^^
> 
> 
>>member of a pci bus, it's folder will be within the pci folder.  The 
>>
>                             ^^^^^^                        ^^^^^^
> 
> What is this? Do you mean "directory" or "file", or even "inode"?
> 
> Or is this a troll from Microsoft?  We don't have such things in
> real operating systems. Next thing you know, we'll need a "cabinet"
> to keep the "folders" in.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> 
> Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
> 
>         111,111,111 * 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
> 
> 


You're absolutely right.  What I meant to say is a directory.  It's 
simply a bad habit.  In fact, one, of several, reason I became 
interested in the Linux kernel project is that I was unhappy with the 
Micro$oft licensing policy.  The term folder is used by micro$oft simply 
to make it's OS sound more user friendly.