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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] iSeries virtual i/o sysfs files
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:20:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D7CFBC.30706@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040622140405.4cb6f8e1.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This patch is to elicit comments (hopefully constructive).
> 
> OK, this is what the patch does.  All the iSeries virtual devices now
> appear in /sys/devices/vio and /sys/bus/vio/devices.  Unfortunately,
> apart from the veth devices, there are all possible devices there at
> the moment - I need to think about how to reduce it but that requires
> moving all the probe code into vio.c ...

I'm not sure I entirely parse the third sentence in this paragraph, but 
nonetheless...

My general idea was that vio should be presented as a bus, so that 
userland could enumerate all vio devices.  This approach seems along 
these lines, and I have no objections to the patch.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-22  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-22  4:04 [RFC] iSeries virtual i/o sysfs files Stephen Rothwell
2004-06-22  6:20 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-06-22 11:23   ` Stephen Rothwell
2004-06-22 11:31     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-22 12:34       ` Stephen Rothwell
2004-06-22 12:39         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-22 13:57     ` Arnd Bergmann

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