From: "Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
To: "Dominik Brodowski" <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:34:07 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4110.10.10.10.24.1110915247.squirrel@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050315190847.GA1870@isilmar.linta.de>
On Tue, March 15, 2005 2:08 pm, Dominik Brodowski said:
> For example, temperature sensors could be exported
> using /sys/class/temp_sensors/... -- then userspace wouldn't need to know
> whether the temperature was determined using an ACPI BIOS call or by
> accessing an i2c device. Such "abstractions", and other kernel code whcih
> uses these "abstractions" (a.k.a. class interfaces) are a great feature
> to have, and one too less used by now.
That really sounds like a job for user space, why complicate the kernel?
A simple user space library could handle returning temperatures without
the caller knowing from where the value was obtained. Isn't this the
exact type of thing that just bloats a kernel needlessly?
Sean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-15 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-15 17:08 [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code Greg KH
2005-03-15 17:09 ` Greg KH
2005-03-15 17:10 ` Greg KH
2005-03-15 17:10 ` Greg KH
2005-03-15 17:11 ` Greg KH
2005-03-15 17:47 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-15 19:34 ` Greg KH
2005-03-15 19:47 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-15 20:15 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-03-15 22:14 ` Greg KH
2005-03-16 1:01 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-03-16 3:42 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-27 14:42 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-03-15 19:08 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-03-15 19:30 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-15 19:34 ` Sean [this message]
2005-03-15 19:45 ` John Lenz
2005-03-15 19:51 ` Greg KH
2005-03-15 20:06 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-03-15 20:14 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-15 20:35 ` David Brownell
2005-03-15 20:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-15 21:14 ` David Brownell
2005-03-15 21:23 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-03-15 22:05 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-15 22:29 ` David Brownell
2005-03-16 23:16 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-17 6:17 ` Greg KH
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