Re: Kernel thoughts of a Linux user

Greg KH
2004-11-22T21:30:23Z

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:33:45PM +0100, Gerold J. Wucherpfennig wrote:
>
> I'm a stupid idiot, but I'm sure that the sysfs and hal thing still has to
> mature for a few years.

"mature for a few years" before what happens? It becomes a fine
vintage, and everyone enjoys it? Or it becomes a stinking pile of
decaying matter? I don't understand what you are getting at here.

> Just imagine such things like listing all available modem devices.
> Listing /sys/class/tty/*/dev without the virtual consoles just isn't
> enough.

You can not determine "modem devices" by just listing tty devices. tty
devices are tty devices, some of them can be acting like a modem (like a
ACM device) and others can just be a serial port connected to a modem.

If you have issues with how HAL works, talk to the developers of it.
It's a relativly new project, and they can use the help. But please
realize that sysfs doesn't exist for the sole reason of HAL. HAL was
created because sysfs enabled it to be created.

thanks,

greg k-h