RE: Flaw in the driver-model implementation of attributes

From: Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky (inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 16:18:11 EST


> From: Alan Stern [mailto:stern@rowland.harvard.edu]
>
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Patrick Mochel wrote:
>
> > SCSI copied USB in this respect. I've always been skeptical about the
> > representation, though Greg had good reason to initially do this. I
wonder
> > if that object could be moved over /sys/class/usb-host/ these days..
>
> I wonder about the apparent proliferation of entries under /sys/class/.
> If people continue to add things like /sys/class/usb-storage/ right at the
> top level, won't it become rather unwieldy? What would be a good place to
> put something like that?

That was exactly my point with the "it-should-go-where-the-
physical-device-is" suggestion. /sys/class will become something
as wild as /proc is now IANF.

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own
(and my fault)
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