On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 04:28:33PM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > On Oct 21, 2015, at 00:03 , Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:13:14PM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > >> We are going to need the overlays to appear on sysfs with runtime > >> global properties (like master enable) so turn them into kobjects. > > > > Why kobjects and not 'struct device’? > > > > Cause it’s overkill. > > There is no hardware/abstract device connection between an overlay and a > device as what’s being used right now in driver core. > > kobjs are enough to present them in the filesystem hierarchy. > > > Why even have them in sysfs at all? You need more information here as > > to why you want to do this. > > > > They have to be in sysfs so that people can have information about the > overlays applied in the system, i.e. where their targets are and whether > removal is possible. That’s what’s possible for now; in the future we might > present the full contents of the overlay there, and what changes to the live > tree were made.
Ok, then say that in the changelog to explain what you are doing here :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
