From: "Artem B. Bityutskiy" <dedekind@yandex.ru>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Bug? Report] kref problem
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:34:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <441AE532.7050007@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060317151858.GA31318@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> So, you should still use the driver core for virtual devices (we have
> lots of virtual devices in the driver model today.)
>
> Why are you not using it? What kind of device do you have? Why does it
> not fit into any existing device model (platform, system, etc)?
>
Actually I tried to use this model first. I hit on problems with and you
said that I should avoid using the device model.
Unfortunately I cannot so far say what I'm writing. The below is a cite
from my old mail which illustrates the sort of my device:
"In connection with this, I have a question. There is a whole bunch of
drivers which do not directly relate to hardware devices, but which
still want to expose their parameters via sysfs. For example, this could
be a filesystem, LVM, a compression layer on top of a file system of a
block device, whatever. These are "virtual" devices and they are not
physically connected to any bus. How should they deal with sysfs?"
--
Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-17 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-16 11:41 [Bug? Report] kref problem Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-16 16:47 ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 16:50 ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 16:50 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-16 16:53 ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 17:07 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-16 17:10 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-16 17:20 ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 18:00 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-16 18:10 ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 17:18 ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 17:31 ` Dave Hansen
2006-03-16 17:42 ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 17:45 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-16 17:58 ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 18:08 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-16 18:20 ` Greg KH
2006-03-17 9:30 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-17 15:18 ` Greg KH
2006-03-17 16:34 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy [this message]
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