Re: [spi-devel-general] [Patch 0/4] IndustrialIO subsystem (ADCs,accelerometers etc)

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Jul 24 2008 - 09:26:44 EST


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:45:31PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> >>
> >> At the moment the big missing element of the subsystem is an easy way of
> >> querying what is there. (proc interface similar to that for the input
> >> subsystem)
> > You mean /sys/class/input/, right? Indeed, something inspired by the
> > input subsystem should work well.
> No, I meant /proc/bus/input/devices which gives machine readable description
> of all devices registered with the input subsystem and their capabilities.
>

/proc/bus/input is a legacy interface (pre-sysfs). Newer subsystems
should try to stay in /sys/.

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Dmitry
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