>>No, of course driverfs isn't for everything. But if it's not
>>for all drivers,
>>then what's it for -- just power management?
>
> "Just" power management??? Like power management isn't important enough???
> ;-)
Well, it's only one of the roles I'd expect of a "driver filesystem",
and actually no -- not the most important one. If instead it were
called "powermanagementfs" ... or if it were renamed to that ... :)
> We need a device tree to do PM. If driverfs's PM capabilities are hurt
> because it doesn't stay true to that, then the featureitis has gone too far.
And for other reasons, we also need one. I don't think you've actually
pointed out any concrete problems for PM though.
- Dave
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