Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: document struct class_device properly

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 12:20:08 EST


On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:00:35PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> What about Kay's proposal about moving (as far as userspace concerned)
> >> everything into /sys/devices?
> >
> > That's exactly what I am now working on. But it will take much longer
> > than 2.6.15 to get there for that. More like the next 6 months or so at
> > the least...
>
> BTW, is there a reason why "devices" is plural, as opposed to the
> singular names used for other directories holding types of objects
> ("/sys/class" "/sys/bus" "/dev" "/lib" etc.)?

That's just the way it happened, no real "reason" behind it :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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