Re: No more "device" symlinks for classes

2007-01-14 Thread Kay Sievers
On 1/14/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:10:59AM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Pierre Ossman wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > I just wanted to know the rationale behind > > 99ef3ef8d5f2f5b5312627127ad63df27c0d0d05 (no more "device" symlink in > > class devices). I

Re: No more "device" symlinks for classes

2007-01-13 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:10:59AM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Pierre Ossman wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > I just wanted to know the rationale behind > > 99ef3ef8d5f2f5b5312627127ad63df27c0d0d05 (no more "device" symlink in > > class devices). I thought that was a rather convenient way of fi

Re: No more "device" symlinks for classes

2007-01-13 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Pierre Ossman wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just wanted to know the rationale behind > 99ef3ef8d5f2f5b5312627127ad63df27c0d0d05 (no more "device" symlink in > class devices). I thought that was a rather convenient way of finding > which physical device the class device was coupled to. > Actually I wo

Re: No more "device" symlinks for classes

2007-01-13 Thread Kay Sievers
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 01:29 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Kay Sievers wrote: > > > > The plan is to have a single unified tree at /sys/devices, where all > > device-directories live below their parents, and /sys/class contains > > only symlinks pointing into this single tree, just like /sys/bus. >

Re: No more "device" symlinks for classes

2007-01-13 Thread Pierre Ossman
Kay Sievers wrote: > > The plan is to have a single unified tree at /sys/devices, where all > device-directories live below their parents, and /sys/class contains > only symlinks pointing into this single tree, just like /sys/bus. > > People want to stack class-devices, but this leads to a /sys/dev

Re: No more "device" symlinks for classes

2007-01-13 Thread Kay Sievers
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 00:51 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: > I just wanted to know the rationale behind > 99ef3ef8d5f2f5b5312627127ad63df27c0d0d05 (no more "device" symlink in > class devices). I thought that was a rather convenient way of finding > which physical device the class device was coupled t