From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:02:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:02:06 -0400 Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net ([64.164.98.8]:3325 "EHLO mta7.pltn13.pbi.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:02:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:04:08 -0700 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: driverfs is not for everything! (was: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map ) To: "Grover, Andrew" Cc: "'Nick Bellinger'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Mochel Message-id: <3D175F18.4020000@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 References: <59885C5E3098D511AD690002A5072D3C02AB7F53@orsmsx111.jf.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>No, of course driverfs isn't for everything. But if it's not >>for all drivers, >>then what's it for -- just power management? > > "Just" power management??? Like power management isn't important enough??? > ;-) Well, it's only one of the roles I'd expect of a "driver filesystem", and actually no -- not the most important one. If instead it were called "powermanagementfs" ... or if it were renamed to that ... :) > We need a device tree to do PM. If driverfs's PM capabilities are hurt > because it doesn't stay true to that, then the featureitis has gone too far. And for other reasons, we also need one. I don't think you've actually pointed out any concrete problems for PM though. - Dave