From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
ebiederm@xmission.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu,
kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and driver model
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:20:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adar6k3g9iw.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071009222638.GD21228@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:26:38 -0700")
> > - relaying implementation details to userspace so that they cannot be
> > easily changed. We would need to allow kobjects not showing up in sysfs
> > and making symlinks a sysfs facility not relying on kobjects to help
> > there.
>
> Huh? Why would you want a kobject to not show up in sysfs?
I think the text you replied to explained it perfectly: becase you
don't want internal implementation details to be exposed the userspace
and become an unchangeable part of the kernel/userspace interface.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-09 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 8:05 [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and driver model Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 02/22] sysfs: separate out sysfs-kobject.h and fs/sysfs/kobject.c Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 05/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_find_child() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 03/22] sysfs: make sysfs_new_dirent() normalize @mode and determine file type Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 06/22] sysfs: restructure addrm helpers Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 04/22] sysfs: make SYSFS_COPY_NAME a flag Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 01/22] sysfs: make sysfs_root a pointer Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 12/22] sysfs: drop kobj and attr from bin related symbols Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 07/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based remove interface sysfs_remove() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 11/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based file interface Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 13/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based bin interface Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 14/22] sysfs: s/symlink/link/g Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 09/22] sysfs: rename internal function sysfs_add_file() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 08/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based directory interface Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 10/22] sysfs: drop kobj and attr from file related symbols Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 15/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based link interface Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 17/22] sysfs: s/sysfs_rename_mutex/sysfs_op_mutex/ and protect all tree modifying ops Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 18/22] kobject: implement __kobject_set_name() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 16/22] sysfs: convert group implementation to use sd-based interface Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 22/22] sysfs: move sysfs_assoc_lock into fs/sysfs/kobject.c and make it static Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 19/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based rename - sysfs_rename() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 20/22] sysfs: kill now unused __sysfs_add_file() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 8:05 ` [PATCH 21/22] sysfs: kill sysfs_hash_and_remove() Tejun Heo
2007-09-25 22:17 ` [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and driver model Greg KH
2007-09-27 11:35 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-27 19:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-29 22:06 ` Tejun Heo
2007-10-05 6:23 ` Greg KH
2007-10-05 12:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-05 13:03 ` [Devel] " Kirill Korotaev
2007-10-05 13:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-09 22:51 ` Greg KH
2007-10-10 13:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-10 20:44 ` Greg KH
2007-10-10 21:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 22:18 ` sukadev
2007-10-16 23:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-05 12:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-09 22:53 ` Greg KH
2007-10-05 6:18 ` Greg KH
2007-10-05 8:00 ` Tejun Heo
2007-10-09 9:29 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-10-09 22:26 ` Greg KH
2007-10-09 23:20 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-10-09 23:28 ` Greg KH
2007-10-10 9:11 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-10-10 9:05 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-10-09 22:48 ` Greg KH
2007-10-10 15:38 ` Alan Stern
2007-10-10 16:16 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-10-10 17:24 ` Martin Bligh
2007-10-10 17:30 ` Greg KH
2007-10-10 18:26 ` Martin Bligh
2007-10-10 18:44 ` Greg KH
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